id: 157316
accession number: 1994.17
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1994.17
updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:18.768000
Confrontation on the Bridge, 1975. Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917–2000). Screenprint; sheet: 49.5 x 66 cm (19 1/2 x 26 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Anne Elizabeth Wilson Memorial Fund 1994.17 © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
title: Confrontation on the Bridge
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creation date: 1975
creation date earliest: 1975
creation date latest: 1975
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creditline: Anne Elizabeth Wilson Memorial Fund
copyright: © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: screenprint
department: Prints
collection: PR - Screenprint
type: Print
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catalogue raisonne: Nesbett L75-2
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CREATORS
* Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917–2000) - artist
Jacob Lawrence (born 1917) has been a prominent artist since 1941 when, at age 24, he became the first African American to have a work in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His career, now spanning seven decades, has been devoted to documenting African-American life and history, from everyday scenes to the universal struggle for freedom, social justice, and human dignity. Moving to Harlem as a teenager in 1930, Lawrence was influenced by the artists, writers, and philosophers of the Harlem Renaissance-among them Romare Bearden, Langston Hughes, and W.E.B. DuBois-who fostered pride in African-American culture. Lawrence's subjects include the legendary abolitionist heroes Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and John Brown, and the story of the massive migration of African Americans from the rural South to the industrialized, urban North during the early decades of the 20th century. After thorough research, Lawrence chronicles the crucial events of each saga by creating a series of small paintings on paper in a modernist style of flat, brightly-colored forms.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Our Stories: African American Prints and Drawings
opening date: 2014-01-24T00:00:00
Our Stories: African American Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 24-May 18, 2014).
title: Julie Mehretu: Portals (FRONT International: Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows)
opening date: 2022-07-16T04:00:00
Julie Mehretu: Portals (FRONT International: Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 13, 2022).
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