No, he did not, but Lawrence was honored as an artist, teacher, and humanitarian when the NAACP awarded him the Spingarn Medal in 1970
1983 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1998 he received Washington state's highest honor, The Washington Medal of Merit. He was awarded the U.S. National Medal of Arts in 1990.
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