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Haiti to Harlem: Toussaint L'Ouverture & Jacob Lawrence Main Menu Jacob Lawrence: The Storyteller Paintings to Prints The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture in Print Contextualizing The Prints Curating the Exhibition Imprints and Impact Highlights the impact of the Jacob Lawrence prints in relation to both Lawrence's life and the history of global POC liberation. About the Curators Meet the Fall 2024 Curatorial Class!

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On Jacob Lawrence and the Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture

Chadwick, Esther. “Notes on ‘A Revolutionary Legacy: Haiti and Toussaint L'Ouverture’ at the British Museum.” Third Text 33, no. 4–5 (2019): 501–20.
Christian, Re’al. “Black Lives Mattered: Jacob Lawrence and Toussaint L’Ouverture.” Art in Print 9, no. 1 (2019): 38–41.
Hills, Patricia. Painting Harlem Modern : The Art of Jacob Lawrence. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.
“Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000).” The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, no. 29 (2000): 32–33.
Nesbett, Peter T, Michelle DuBois, and Patricia Hills. Over the Line : The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2000.
Twa, Lindsay J. “Vernacularizing Haiti’s Revolutionary History” In Visualizing Haiti in U.S. Culture, 1910-1950, 157-200. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2014.
Williams, Carolyn. “The Haitian Revolution and a North American Griot: The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture by Jacob Lawrence” In Echoes of the Haitian Revolution 1804-2004, edited by Martin Munro and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, 61-85. 1st ed. Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2008.