Jacob Lawrence was an American painter and professor at the University of Washington known for his portrayal of African-American historical subjects and contemporary life in his "dynamic-cubist" paintings. Lawrence believed that all paintings should have three things: universality, clarity and strength. The featured print on our art wall is his painting Fulton and Nostrand, made in 1958.
Gieve Patel is a prominent Indian poet, playwright, painter, as well as a retired physician. He lives in Mumbai and is fully engaged in the arts. Patel is considered to be one of the important painters who portrayed the social reality parallel to the prominent painters of the Baroda School in India. Through his paintings, Patel explores themes of contemporary life, with a focus on its complexity and beauty. The featured print on our art wall is The Early Guest, painted in 1981.
Charles Demuth was an American painter who developed Precisionism as a style of painting, which reduced subjects to their essential geometric shapes, and often used planes of light to create a sense of crisp focus and sleekness. He primarily worked in watercolors and turned to oils later on in his career. In founding the precisionist movement, he worked closely with other modernist artists, including Georgia O'Keefe. In his childhood, he had either suffered a leg injury or polio, and used a cane while walking his whole life. As a diabetic, he was one of the first Americans to receive insulin. He died due to diabetic complications in 1935 at the age of 51. The print featured on our art wall is Welcome to our City, painted in 1921.