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Materials:
tempera on board
Size Notes:
51.1 x 61 cm
Description:
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Markings:
signed and dated 'Jacob Lawrence 1947'
Exhibited:
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Little Show of Work in Progress: Paintings by Robert Gwathmey and Jacob Lawrence, Ceramics by Edwin and Mary Sheier, January-February 1950., Washington, D.C., American University, Watkins Gallery, Objective and Non-Objective, April-May 1950., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jacob Lawrence, May-July 1974, p. 57, no. 102., New York, DC Moore, Jacob Lawrence: Memorial Exhibition, February-March 2001., Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Detroit Institute of Arts; Los Angeles County Museum of Arts and Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence, May 2001-January 2003., New York, DC Moore, Jacob Lawrence: Moving Forward, Paintings, 1936-1999, February-March 2008, pp. 11, 23, 76 (illustrated on the cover). , The Detroit Institute of Fine Arts, 2015 (on loan)., Savannah College of Art and Design, Jacob Lawrence: Lines of Influence, September 2017-February 2018, n.p. (illustrated).
Literature:
Jacob Lawrence: American Painter, exh. cat., Seattle Art Museum, 1986, p. 99, pl. 44 (illustrated)., P.T. Nesbett, M. DuBois, Jacob Lawrence: Paintings, Drawings, and Murals (1935-1999), A Catalogue Raisonn, Seattle, 2000, p. 105, no. P47-15 (illustrated)., P. Hills, In the Heart of Black Belt: Jacob Lawrences Commission from Fortune to Paint the South,?? International Review of African American Art, vol. 19, no. 1, 2003, pp. 33 and 35., P. Hills, Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence, Berkeley, 2009, pp. 161-162, fig. 111 (illustrated).
Provenance:
The Downtown Gallery, New York, Robert Blackburn, New York, The Downtown Gallery, New York, James Banks, Palm Springs, DC Moore Gallery, New York, The Manoogian Collection, Taylor, Michigan, Jonathan Boos, New York, Acquired from the above by the present owner