Harlem Diner
Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000)

Jacob Lawrence was an African-American Harlem Renaissance painter who was best known for mod-naive urban genre-figure painting. Lawrence also became known for his narrative series of tempera paintings, which expressed black life in America. Lawrence’s vivid collage-style canvases typically featured bold planes of color and symbolic elements of African-American heritage.

Lawrence’s Harlem Diner was created in 1938 with gouache on paper, laid on a 12-5/8 by 19-1/8 inch board.