Lila Acheson Wallace Wing Met Museum Poster 1987

Description: Lila Acheson Wallace Museum Wing - Jacob Lawrence "Pool Parlor" Metropolitan Museum of Art Poster. From the opening of the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing in the Museum of Modern Art in 1987, it features a reproduction of Pool Parlor by Jacob Lawrence. Poster is used but in good condition with no punctures. Shipped fast and safely. Who was the artist?Jacob Armstead Lawrence (September 7, 1917 – June 9, 2000) was an American painter known for his portrayal of African-American historical subjects and contemporary life. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", although by his own account the primary influence was not so much French art as the shapes and colors of Harlem.[1] He brought the African-American experience to life using blacks and browns juxtaposed with vivid colors. He also taught and spent 16 years as a professor at the University of Washington.Lawrence is among the best-known twentieth-century African-American painters, known for his modernist illustrations of everyday life as well as narratives of African-American history and historical figures. At the age of 23 he gained national recognition with his 60-panel The Migration Series, which depicted the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North. The series was purchased jointly by the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Lawrence's works are in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Northwest Art. His 1947 painting The Builders hangs in the White House. Who was Lila Acheson Wallace? Born Lila Bell Acheson in Virden, Manitoba, Canada, her father was a Presbyterian minister who brought his family to the United States when she was a child, and she grew up in Park River, North Dakota.In 1917, she graduated from the University of Oregon, located in Eugene, Oregon, taught at schools for two years, and then worked for the Young Women's Christian Association. She also studied at Ward–Belmont College in Nashville, Tennessee.In 1921, she married DeWitt Wallace in Pleasantville, New York. The couple co-founded the Reader's Digest magazine, with the first publication in 1922. For many years, Reader's Digest was the best-selling consumer magazine in the United States.In her lifetime, she made philanthropic contributions estimated at $60 million.

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