Jacob Lawrence

Person · Open Library

Born

1917

Died

2000

Works

16

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Germany

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

10

Total plays

58

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. A power primer.

   · 1992 · cited 41,574x

2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,494x

3. A Coefficient of Agreement for Nominal Scales

   · 1960 · cited 31,929x

4. Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context

   · 2014 · cited 26,145x

5. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,786x

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Quotes

• “I try to point out to them there's less chance of your becoming just illustrative when you become involved with the plastic elements of painting. So in short this is how I try to adapt it to teaching. You don't see a head as a head, but you see it as a form and as a shape. And you can work as realistically as you care to. But if you just see these things for what they are the chances are you will become more illustrative and you will never develop from this, you know; move out from this…”
• “…My early beginnings, as most Negroes in the United States, has been the Negro experience. This is all I knew at one time was the Negro experience. My whole background, Negro family, Negro community, everything was Negro. So I think it was natural that I would use this symbol for my expression, you see…”
• “‘The migrants kept coming’ is a refrain of triumph over adversity. If it rings true for you today, then it must still strike a chord in our American experience.”
• “When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.”

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