| Web Site Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Web Site Review

Jacob Lawrence: Over the Line, http://www .phillipscollection.org/lawrence/. Created by Ruth R. Perlin and Swim Design Consultants. Maintained by the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Reviewed Oct. 12–30, 2006.

Jacob Lawrence: Exploring Stories, http://whitney.org/jacoblawrence/. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y. Reviewed Oct. 12–30, 2006.

Both of these Web sites were created in 2001 to accompany exhibitions exploring the life and work of the African American painter Jacob Lawrence. The Phillips Collection's Jacob Lawrence: Over the Line employs Flash software and a slick design to create an animated and visually arresting presentation of Lawrence's life and work. However, for all of its visual appeal, the site in substance departs little from traditional media: it is linear in design, thin in content, and isolated from the broader World Wide Web. The Whitney Museum of American Art's Jacob Lawrence: Exploring Stories is a simpler site that covers much of the same ground, but it offers more paths for exploration and links to external sites to provide context. Both sites appear static, unchanged in the years since their creation; consequently, some external links on the Whitney Museum site are dated or broken. Such sites have the merit of extending the life of exhibitions and making a selection of their contents available to an audience unable to see them in person. But that is all they do—and to be fair, all they seek to do—limiting them to being reference sites for an audience seeking very general information and a glimpse of artworks.

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