Lucas Updates Website
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has updated its website with new photos of the essentially complete Ma Yansong building and campus. Also online are hi-res images of a selection of works in the collection. The Lucas opens Sep. 22, 2026. Rendering of Library Jacob Lawrence, "The Ant and the Grasshopper," illustration for Aesop's Fables , 1969. (c) 2026 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation Harlem Renaissance artist Jacob Lawrence produced a set of 23 black-and-white illustrations for a 1970 edition of Aesop's Fables published by Simon & Schuster. The original, large-format (29 by 23 in.) ink drawings were previously owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and lent to a 2013 show at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University. The drawings augment lithographs and a tempera painting by the artist in the Lucas collection.
