Q 01/05

Two museums bought Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series in 1942 and divided its panels between them by which rule?

A) Odd and even numbers

B) First half, second half

C) City and country scenes

D) North and South scenes

Answer · why

A) Odd and even numbers

Odd and even numbers settled it: the Phillips Collection in Washington took the odd panels and New York's Museum of Modern Art the rest, so the full s...

Q 02/05

As a boy, Jacob Lawrence drew his first crayon patterns by copying which furnishings in his mother's Harlem home?

A) Quilts

B) Curtains

C) Carpets

D) Wallpaper

Answer · why

C) Carpets

Carpets gave him his first lessons in pattern, and he later said the bright colors people of his mother's generation used at home made him think of Ma...

Q 03/05

Jacob Lawrence's 1947 painting The Builders was bought at auction in 2007 for $2.5 million to hang in which building?

A) The US Capitol

B) The White House

C) The Supreme Court

D) The Library of Congress

Answer · why

B) The White House

The White House hung it in the Green Room, one of three state parlors used for small receptions and teas; its historical association paid for the pict...

Q 04/05

Drafted in 1943, Jacob Lawrence joined a racially integrated crew aboard the Sea Cloud in which US military service?

A) Naval Reserve

B) Merchant Marine

C) Army Transport Service

D) Coast Guard

Answer · why

D) Coast Guard

Coast Guard duty did not stop him painting: he recorded life aboard ship as a combat artist, and most of those wartime pictures have since gone missin...

Q 05/05

Jacob Lawrence's 31-panel series and 1968 children's book both tell the life of which woman born enslaved in Maryland?

A) Harriet Tubman

B) Sojourner Truth

C) Phillis Wheatley

D) Ida B. Wells

Answer · why

A) Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman's story became his picture book Harriet and the Promised Land, listed among the best illustrated books of 1968.