Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence.THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION Although it's troublesome to hear people using Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) to beat up on other socially oriented artists--as if his cogent, pared-down forms were the goal they had missed--his work itself is undeniable. Simultaneously modest and ambitious, his epic cycles of paintings on black history, most famously "The Migration of the Negro" (1940-41), tell crucial American stories in powerful ways. Curated by Elizabeth Hutton Turner, "Over the Line" (the title comes from a painting of Harriet Tubman) includes more than zoo works from all periods of the artist's career. May 27-Aug. 19; travels to Whitney Museum of American Art Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York City, founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. It was an outgrowth of the Whitney Studio (1914–18), the Whitney Studio Club (1918–28), and the Whitney Studio Galleries (1928–30). , New York; Detroit Institute of Fine Arts The Institute of Fine Arts, commonly called the IFA, is a graduate school of New York University and is one of the world’s leading graduate schools and research centers in art history, archaeology, and conservation. ; Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, also known as LACMA, is the official and world-renowned art museum of the County of Los Angeles, California, located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. ; and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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