Editing Jacob Lawrence (section)

==== Teaching and late works ====
Lawrence taught at several schools after his first stint teaching at Black Mountain College, including the [[New School for Social Research]], the [[Art Students League]], [[Pratt Institute]],<ref>{{cite book | page = 148 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Ite8ZY4qRggC&pg=PA148 | title = Tales from the Easel: American Narrative Paintings from Southeastern Museums, Circa 1800-1950 | date = 2004 | publisher = University of Georgia Press | first = Charles C. | last = Eldredge |isbn = 9780820325699| access-date = August 26, 2020 | archive-date = September 28, 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200928093403/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ite8ZY4qRggC&pg=PA148 | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | access-date = August 18, 2020 | work =The New York Times | date = November 14, 1970 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1970/11/14/archives/jacob-lawrence-is-named-professor-of-art-at-pratt.html | title = Jacob Lawrence Is Named Professor of Art at Pratt | archive-date = September 28, 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200928093417/https://www.nytimes.com/1970/11/14/archives/jacob-lawrence-is-named-professor-of-art-at-pratt.html | url-status = live }}</ref> and the [[Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture|Skowhegan School]].<ref>{{cite book | page= 176 | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Ih5ePspKSeAC&pg=PA176 | title= The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country | date= 2002 | publisher= Simon & Schuster | first1= Henry Louis Jr. | last1= Gates | first2= Cornel | last2= West |isbn = 9780684864150| access-date= August 26, 2020 | archive-date= September 28, 2020 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200928093416/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ih5ePspKSeAC&pg=PA176 | url-status= live }}</ref> He became a visiting artist at the University of Washington in 1970 and was professor of art there from 1971 to 1986.<ref name=nytobit/> He was graduate advisor there to lithographer and abstract painter [[James Claussen]].<ref>[http://www.jamesclaussen.com/about-james-claussen.html About James Claussen] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801234534/http://www.jamesclaussen.com/about-james-claussen.html |date=August 1, 2020 }}, Website of James Claussen. Retrieved January 6, 2020.</ref>

Shortly after moving to Washington state, Lawrence did a series of five paintings on the westward journey of African-American pioneer [[George Washington Bush]]. These paintings are now in the collection of the [[State of Washington History Museum]].<ref>Program for ''Making a Life | Creating a World'', [[Northwest African American Museum]], 2008.</ref>

He undertook several major commissions in this part of his career. In 1980, he completed ''Exploration'', a 40-foot-long mural made of porcelain on steel, comprising a dozen panels devoted to academic endeavor. It was installed in Howard University's Blackburn Center. The ''Washington Post'' described it as "enormously sophisticated yet wholly unpretentious " and said:<ref>{{cite news | newspaper = Washington Post | access-date = August 18, 2020 | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1980/12/04/the-artists-universe/c8c1cdee-c998-4ada-8ee3-b96642d82f03/ | title = The Artist's Universe | date = December 4, 1980 | first = Paul | last = Richard }}</ref>
{{Blockquote| The colors are completely flat, but because the porcelain is layered, and because Lawrence here and there paints in strong black shadows, his mural has the look of a rich relief. It is full of visual rhymes. The small scene of John Henry, the steel drivin' man, in the final panel is echoed by an image of a sculptor in the art scene: He is hammering another spike, for quite different reasons, into a block of stone. This is not art that one tires of, for it is not the sort of work one can read at once.}}

Lawrence produced another series in 1983, eight screen prints called the ''Hiroshima Series''. Commissioned to provide full-page illustrations for a new edition of a work of his choice, Lawrence chose [[John Hersey]]'s ''Hiroshima'' (1946). He depicted in abstract visual language several survivors at the moment of the bombing in the midst of physical and emotional destruction.<ref name=umich/><ref>{{cite web | access-date = October 30, 2020 | website = Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | url = https://www.pafa.org/museum/exhibitions/jacob-lawrences-hiroshima | title = Jacob Lawrence's Hiroshima| date = May 3, 2019 }}</ref>

Lawrence's painting ''Theater'' was commissioned by the University of Washington in 1985 and installed in the main lobby of the [[Meany Hall for the Performing Arts]].<ref>{{cite web | access-date = August 17, 2020 | url = https://meanycenter.org/visit/venues/meany-hall-performing-arts | website = Meany Center for the Performing Arts, University of Washington | title = Meany Hall for the Performing Arts | date = August 19, 2013 | archive-date = August 20, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180820083009/https://meanycenter.org/visit/venues/meany-hall-performing-arts | url-status = live }}</ref>

In the early 1990s Lawrence was commissioned to paint the ''[[Events in the Life of Harold Washington]]'' mural in Chicago's [[Harold Washington Library]].