Editing Jacob Lawrence (section)

==== Post-war ====
In 1945, he was awarded a fellowship in the fine arts by the [[John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|Guggenheim Foundation]].<ref name=gug/>
In 1946, [[Josef Albers]] recruited Lawrence to join the faculty of the summer art program at [[Black Mountain College]].<ref>{{cite book | page= 638 | title = American Education, the Metropolitan Experience, 1876-1980 | first = Lawrence | last = Cremin | author-link = Lawrence Cremin | date = 1988 | publisher = Harper & Row}}</ref>

Returning to New York, Lawrence continued to paint but grew depressed; in 1949, he checked himself into Hillside Hospital in Queens, where he remained for eleven months. Painting there, he produced his Hospital Series: works that were uncharacteristic of him in their focus of his subjects' emotional states as inpatients.

Between 1954 and 1956 Lawrence produced a 30-panel series called "Struggle: From the History of the American People" that depicted historical scenes from 1775 to 1817. The series, originally planned to include sixty panels, ranges from references to current events like the 1954 [[Army-McCarthy hearings]] and relatively obscure or neglected aspects of American history, like a woman, [[Margaret Cochran Corbin]], in combat or the wall built by unseen enslaved Blacks that protected the American forces at the [[Battle of New Orleans]].<ref>{{cite news | date= September 17, 2020|last1=Elujoba |first1=Yinka |title=Jacob Lawrence, Peering Through History's Cracks |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/arts/design/jacob-lawrence-metropolitan-museum.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=22 October 2020}}</ref> Rather than traditional titles, Lawrence labeled each panel with a quote. He titled a panel depicting Patrick Henry's [[Give me liberty or give me death!|famous speech]] with the less well-known passage: "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery." A panel depicting an African American slave revolt is titled with the words of a man who sued for emancipation from slavery in 1773: "We have no property! We have no wives! No children! We have no city! No country!"<ref>{{cite news | access-date = October 22, 2020 | url = https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-jacob-lawrence-painted-radical-history-struggle-180974072/ | work = Smithsonian Magazine | date= January 28, 2020 | first = Brigit | last= Katz | title = How Jacob Lawrence Painted a Radical History of the American Struggle }}</ref> The fraught politics of the mid-1950s prevented the series from finding a museum purchaser, and the panels had been sold to a private collector who re-sold them as individual works.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sheets |first1=Hilarie M. |title=Jacob Lawrence Painting, Missing for Decades, Is Found by Met Visitor | date= October 21, 2020 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/arts/design/jacob-lawrence-painting-found.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=22 October 2020}}</ref> Three panels (Panels 14, 20 and 29) are lost, and three others were only located in 2017, 2020, and 2021.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/arts/design/jacob-lawrence-painting-resurfaces.html|title=Lightning Strikes Twice: Another Lost Jacob Lawrence Surfaces|first=Hilarie M.|last=Sheets|newspaper=The New York Times|date=March 1, 2021}}</ref>

The [[Brooklyn Museum of Art]] mounted a retrospective exhibition of Lawrence's work in 1960.<ref name=nytobit/> In 1969, he was among 200 Black artists in a premier show sponsored by the Philadelphia School District and the Pennsylvania Civic Center Museum. The show featured some of the top names in the country, including [[Ellen Powell Tiberino]], [[Horace Pippin]], [[Nancy Elizabeth Prophet]], [[Barbara Bullock]], Jacob Lawrence, [[Benny Andrews]], [[Roland Ayers]], [[Romare Bearden]], [[Avel de Knight]], [[Barkley L. Hendricks|Barkley Hendricks]], Paul Keene, [[Raymond Saunders (artist)|Raymond Saunders]], [[Louis B. Sloan]], [[Ed Wilson (artist)|Ed Wilson]], [[Henry Ossawa Tanner]] and [[Joshua Johnson (painter)|Joshua Johnson]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Donohoe |first=Victoria |date=1969-12-14 |title=Impressive Exhibit by Afro-Americans |work=Philadelphia Inquirer |agency=via newspapers.com. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/169131720/ |access-date=2023-01-13}}</ref>