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If at times my productions do not express the conventionally beautiful, there is always an effort to express the universal beauty of man's continuous struggle to lift his social position and to add dimension to his spiritual being.

Jacob Lawrence

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Jacob Lawrence
Age: 82 †
Born: 1917
Born: September 7
Died: 2000
Died: June 9
Draftsperson
Painter
Atlantic City
New Jersey
Jacob Armstead Lawrence
Jacob A. Lawrence
Times
Productions
Spiritual
Add
Social
Express
Conventionally
Beautiful
Universal
Continuous
Always
Position
Dimension
Men
Struggle
Lift
Effort
Dimensions
Beauty
Lifts

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