“If at times my productions do not express the conventionally beautiful,” Jacob Lawrence once remarked, “there is always an effort to express the universal beauty of man’s continuous struggle…” Lawrence was a prominent figurative painter of the 20th century and the most important Black artist of his time, recounting epic narratives and everyday scenes, often of the African-American experience, to tell a broader American story.
—Salmgundi’s Art Scene columnist, Barbara Purcell, writes on Lawrence in the current issue, #212-213 (Fall 2021 - Winter 2022), a piece also available below online.
“If at times my productions do not express the conventionally beautiful,” Jacob Lawrence once remarked, “there is always an effort to express the universal beauty of man’s continuous struggle…” Lawrence was a prominent figurative painter of the 20th century and the most important Black artist of his time, recounting epic narratives and everyday scenes, often of the African-American experience, to tell a broader American story.
—Salmgundi’s Art Scene columnist, Barbara Purcell, writes on Lawrence in the current issue, #212-213 (Fall 2021 - Winter 2022), a piece also available below online.
“If at times my productions do not express the conventionally beautiful,” Jacob Lawrence once remarked, “there is always an effort to express the universal beauty of man’s continuous struggle…” Lawrence was a prominent figurative painter of the 20th century and the most important Black artist of his time, recounting epic narratives and everyday scenes, often of the African-American experience, to tell a broader American story.
—Salmgundi’s Art Scene columnist, Barbara Purcell, writes on Lawrence in the current issue, #212-213 (Fall 2021 - Winter 2022), a piece also available below online.
Salmagundi 202-213 (Fall 2021 - Winter 2022) will be published by December 1. A characteristically eclectic and provocative issue, 212-213 includes:
Barbara Purcell’s inaugural Art Scene column on Jacob Lawrence
“Can the American Meritocracy Get Religion?, a symposium including Marilynne Robinson, Rick Moody, Siri Hustvedt, William Deresiewicz and David Skeel
An interview on race and integration with writer Calvin Baker
An excerpt from Elias Canetti’s The Book Against Death
Linda Hall on the American essay
Jennifer Delton on “Inclusiveness”
Benjamin Ivry on Huizinga
Jeffrey Meyers on Plath and Arbus
Fiction by Sheila Kohler, poems by Kit Fan, Richard Tillinghast and others
And much more.
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