Lawrence’s particular modernism arranges simple shapes of brown, black and vivid color for stunning contrast with few details such as facial features. His work and career were as determined as the people of this migration. He began his study at the Harlem Community Art Center. He excelled and gained prominence in the world of visual art. His Migration Series is housed in two museums, the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. He was also an art professor at the University of Washington for 16 years. He died at age 83 in 2000.

Our nation is once again forced to face the reality and the pain of racial discrimination as I write this. Discrimination was not left behind by that hopeful migration of young and old so many years ago. It is ours to face and to challenge wherever we are and wherever we go. This discrimination is ours to only imagine lying on our stomachs with our hands behind our backs.

May our prayers for guidance, change and justice be offered now to the God of all in honor of George Floyd and the many others who have been killed.

In sadness, faith and hope,
Sandy Prouty