Posts tagged "Jacob Lawrence"

Legendary artist Jacob Lawrence in his days as a Coastguardsman on March 27, 1945 in Boston. He was at the Institute of Modern Art in Boston for a showing of his paintings (he is shown with one of his most famous works, “Ironers,” a gouache on paper from 1943. Photo: Bettman/Corbis

The iconic artist Jacob Lawrence and his wife Gwen Knight, also an artist, photographed by Irving Penn in New York on February 18, 1947. Photo: Condé Nast Publications.