and heven once eorted lawrence around new york's pratt institute, where adams wa udent. >> i felt like he was a jacobme than a mr. lawrce, i don't know... it just seemed like he was very, like, approachable, and ry modest, in personality.ik i feltwe were more, just more in kinship. >> reporter: despite lawrence's >> reporter: the exhibition closes with an installation derrick adams created after sifting through lawrence's archives. it's an imaginary studio, filled with photographs never beforeow publicly. the chair is lawrence's, oriented, it seems, for quiet contemplation. and facing a ladder, perhaps lifting lawrence out of struggle. >> ladder i think has to do with just the idea of the plight. his career. the plight of humanity. jacob, you know, starting om this very familiar place, being seated. and thinking, and then, the part of kind of, ascending. he's no longer with us. but there's things that kind of give us a bigger picture of who jacob was. >> reporter: which is of an artist defined, in part, byle stru for the pbs newshour, i'm jared bowen in salem, massachusetts. >> woodruff: and on the n

lawrence routinely wrote notes about his process on the backs of the works, all as it related to struggle. >> i think about someone like jacobr like him had very little ceopportunity to experi themselves as an artist. >> a widely exhibited artist himself, derek adams says lawrence, who died in 2000, has influenced his career more than any other painter. he points out they very strikingly similar -- >> i felt like he was a jacob to me. it did not seem like he was very -- it seemed like he was very approachable and very modest in personality. i felt le we were more just in kinship. >> the exhibition finishes with be imaginary studio filled with photographs nevere shown publicly. the chair is lawrence is. oriented for quiet contemplation, it seems, and facing a ladder perhaps lifting hiout of struggle. a lot of it has to do with the idea of the plight, his career, the plight of humanity. jacob starting from is very familiar place of being seated and thinking and then the part of the sending. there are things thatind of give us a bigger picture of who he was. >> which is as an artist defined in part by struggle. judy: clearly wo