Features master painters Hughie Lee-Smith and Jacob Lawrence. In addition to visual sequences of the artist's work, the program includes an inside look at a class taught by Lee-Smith at New York's prestigious Art Students League; both artists working in their studios; a trip by ferry to an island in Puget Sound where Lawrence works on a commissioned mural; and an animation of the illustrations from Lawrence's children's book "Harriet and the Promised Land". From the collection of the Black Resource Center at the County of Los Angeles Public Library.
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