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Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000), who painted the African-American experience, is among the most well-known and respected black American figurative artists of the 20th century. But a new exhibition, "Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club" (at Ohio's Toledo Museum of Art through Sept. 3), puts Lawrence on the international stage, as it broadens our understanding of the artist, his influences and his art.