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| If I have achieved a degree of success as a creative artist, it is mainly due to the black experience which is our heritage. --Jacob Lawrence, accepting the NAACP's Spingarn Medal, 1970 | ||
1937
Two-year scholarship to American Artists School, New York 1940
2nd prize, Exhibition of the Art of the American Negro, 1851-1940 at the American Negro Exhibition in Chicago 1942
Julius Rosenwald Fund Fellowship (also 1941 and 1940) 6th purchase prize, Artists for Victory: An Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1946
John Simon Guggenheim Post Service Fellowship Achievement award, New Masses magazine 1948
Norman Wait Harris Medal, Art Institute of Chicago 1st place purchase award, Seventh Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Sculptures, and Prints by Negro Artists, Atlanta University Certificate of recognition, Opportunity magazine 1951
Honorary award, Committee for the Negro in the Arts 1952
Award winner, Brooklyn Museum’s biennial of the Society of Brooklyn Artists, New York 1953
National Institute of Arts and Letters Grant, New York 1954
Chapelbrook Foundation Fellowship 1955
First Prize in Mural Competition for United Nations Building (shared with Stuart Davis), New York 1970
Spingarn Medal (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) Honorary Doctorate, Denison University, Granville, OH 1972
Honorary Doctorate, Pratt Institute, New York 1973
Citation from the National Association of Schools of Art The Brooklyn Arts Book for Children Citation presented by the Brooklyn Museum and the Brooklyn Public Library, New York 1976
Appointed Elector Hall of Fame for Great Americans Honorary Doctorate, Colby College, Waterville, ME 1978
Nominated Commissioner, National Council of the Arts, by President Carter, confirmed by the U.S. Senate Appointed Distinguished Faculty Lecturer for 1978, University of Washington, Seattle 1979
Honorary Doctorate, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore 1981
Washington State Governor's Award of Special Commendation, Olympia Honorary Doctorate, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh 1983
Elected Member American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York 1984
Washington State Governor's Arts Award, Olympia Honorary Doctorate, State University of New York, Albany, NY 1985
Honorary Doctorate, Howard University, Washington 1987
Honorary Doctorate, Spelman College, Atlanta Honorary Doctorate, Yale University, New Haven, CT 1988
"The Artist Award for a Distinguished Body of Work, Exhibition, Presentation or Performance", The College Art Association of America, New York NAACP 3rd Annual Great Black Artists Award, New York National Council for Culture and Art, Inc., New York Images Award for Outstanding Achievement in Art, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Honorary Doctorate, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Honorary Doctorate, Parsons School of Design, New York 1989
Honorary Doctorate, Tulane University, New Orleans 1990
National Medal of Arts from President George Bush 1992
National Arts Award, The Links Honorary Doctorate, New York University, New York Honorary Doctorate, Rochester University, Rochester, NY Honorary Doctorate, Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ 1993
National Arts Club Medal of Honor, New York 1994
Edwin T. Pratt Award, The Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle, Seattle Charles White Lifetime Achievement Award, Los Angeles 1995
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Skowhegan Medal for Painting, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, New York Honorary Doctorate, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 1996
Awarded The Algur H. Meadows Award for Excellence in the Arts, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, Dallas Lifetime Achievement in the Arts with Gwendolyn Knight, Corporate Council for the Arts, Seattle Honorary Doctorate, Seattle University, Seattle Honorary Doctorate, Amherst College, Amherst, MA 1997
New York Artist Equity Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Visual Arts, New York William O. Douglas Award, American Civil Liberties Union of Washington, Seattle Lifetime Achievement Award, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle Founders’ Day Medal, Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, Philadelphia Honorary Doctorate, West Chester University, West Chester, PA 1998
Washington State Medal of Merit, Olympia Honorary Doctorate, University of Illinois at Chicago 1999
6th Annual Golden Umbrella Award and Mayor’s Master Artist Award, Seattle Lifetime Achievement Award, Americans for the Arts, New York 2000
Artist of the Year Award, PONCHO, Seattle |
