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ART, STORYTELLING BLENDED EXHIBIT TRACES LIVES OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, HARRIET TUBMAN.(KENTUCKY LIFE)

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From: The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY)
Date: 20010306
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Byline: Bruce Schreiner Associated Press Writer

LOUISVILLE -- As a young painter influenced by the Harlem cultural Renaissance and its expressions of freedom, Jacob Lawrence blended art and storytelling to portray two black icons' triumph over oppression.

Inspired partly by his own family's slave past, Lawrence chose Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman as heroes for a series of paintings tracing the abolitionists' lives from bondage to champions of freedom.

Lawrence's tribute to their unconquerable spirit is a 63-piece exhibition on display at the Speed Art Museum, ...

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