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The Artist Project: Jacob El Hanani

June 6, 2016
Artist Jacob El Hanani reflects on the _Mishneh Torah_ by Master of the Barbo Missal in this episode of The Artist Project.
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Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle | Met Speaks

September 16, 2020

By Kevin Young, LeRonn P. Brooks, Tammi Lawson, and Randall Griffey

Join acclaimed scholars to reflect on the work of the iconic American modernist Jacob Lawrence in conjunction with the exhibition _Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle_.
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David Landau and Marie-Rose Kahane Donate 44 Glass Works by Carlo Scarpa to Metropolitan Museum

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Reckoning with American History in Jacob Lawrence’s “Struggle”

October 1, 2020

By The Digital Editors

In this 1968 interview, Lawrence discusses the importance of centering Black contributions to U.S. history.
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Wanda Landowska and the Met

November 16, 2015

By Rebecca Lindsey

Visiting Committee Member Rebecca Lindsey profiles harpsichordist Wanda Landowska, who made several concert appearances at the Met in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Jacob Lawrence’s Powerful Little-Known Series Struggle: From the History of the American People on View Beginning August 29

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Modern Storytellers: Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Faith Ringgold

October 1, 2004

By Stella Paul

All three grew up or trained or lived at various points in their lives in Harlem, and participated in the community in important ways.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces Discovery of Missing Painting by Iconic American Modernist Jacob Lawrence

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Jacob Lawrence: An Intimate Portrait, 1993

October 9, 2020
In this short feature, produced to accompany a 1993 LACMA exhibition of Jacob Lawrence’s series on Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, hear from the artist and those who knew him well.
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Kingdoms of the Savanna: The Luba and Lunda Empires

October 1, 2003

By Alexander Ives Bortolot

The emergence of the Luba and Lunda empires in the seventeenth century had a profound impact upon political and artistic practices in the Central African savanna.
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Bird of Prey

Jacob Landau (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1917–2001 Roosevelt, New Jersey)

Date: 1960
Accession Number: 1986.1180.1276

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Isaac Blessing Jacob

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (Dutch, Amsterdam 1621–1674 Amsterdam)

Date: 1642
Accession Number: 25.110.16

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Individuals

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Landau #3294

Brewster & Co. (American, New York)

Date: 1877
Accession Number: 23.112.96

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Design for Landau

Brewster & Co. (American, New York)

Date: 1850–70
Accession Number: 23.112.2093

Donors of Gifts of Works of Art

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Design for Landau Clarence, no. 640

Brewster & Co. (American, New York)

Date: 1850–70
Accession Number: 23.112.1423

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Trumpeters, from "The Triumph of Caesar"

Jacob of Strasbourg (Italian School, born Alsace, active Venice, 1494–1530)

Date: 1504
Accession Number: 27.54.118

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Design for the decoration of a Warship

Pierre Puget (French, Château Follet 1620–1694 Fougette)

Date: 17th century
Accession Number: 63.167.2