Can you identify this artist?

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A social realist, this artist documented the African-American experience in several series devoted to Toussaint L'Ouverture, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, life in Harlem, and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. He is one of the first nationally recognized African-American artists.

Scroll to the bottom for the answer and to see a work by the artist.

Source: Joan Stahl. American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995).

Pictured top: Portrait of Jacob Lawrence, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Peter A. Juley & Son Collection

Pictured bottom: Jacob Lawrence (born 1917), The Library,1960, tempera, 24 x 29 7/8 in, Gift of S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.