id: 157336 accession number: 1994.2 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1994.2 updated: 2023-12-07 17:06:17.197000 Creative Therapy, 1949. Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917–2000). Casein over graphite; sheet: 56 x 76.4 cm (22 1/16 x 30 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Delia E. Holden Fund 1994.2 © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York title: Creative Therapy title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1949 creation date earliest: 1949 creation date latest: 1949 current location: creditline: Delia E. Holden Fund copyright: © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York --- culture: America, 20th century technique: casein over graphite department: Drawings collection: DR - American 20th Century type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: Nesbett and DuBois P49-06 --- 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. --- measurements: Sheet: 56 x 76.4 cm (22 1/16 x 30 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: cream Grumbacher (blind stamp lower left) wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signed, lower right, in black casein: Jacob Lawrence / 49; verso, by artist, center, in graphite: "Creative Therapy" / Hillside Hospital 1949 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: American Drawings from the Permanent Collection opening date: 1998-04-19T00:00:00 American Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). title: Over the Line: the Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence opening date: 2002-10-06T00:00:00 Over the Line: the Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 6, 2002-January 5, 2003). title: The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-06-09T00:00:00 The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006). 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Jacob Lawrence: Exhibition of New Paintings in Casein. The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY (October 24 - November 11, 1950). --- PROVENANCE (Downtown Gallery, New York, NY, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Zlowe, New York NY) date: 1950 footnotes: citations: Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Zlowe, New York, NY date: 1950-? footnotes: citations: (Terry Dintenfass, Inc., New York, NY) date: ?-? footnotes: citations: Andrew and Ann Dintenfass, Pacific Palisades, CA date: ?-? footnotes: citations: (Terry Dintenfass, Inc. New York, NY, sold to Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1994 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1994- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Jacob Lawrence: Exhibition of New Paintings in Casein. Exh. Cat. New York: The Downtown Gallery, 1950. page number: Mentioned: no. 4 url: Pearson, Ralph M. The Modern Renaissance in American Art: Presenting the Work and Philosophy of Fifty-Four Distinguished Artists. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1954. page number: Mentioned: p. 167 url: Litt, Steven. "Art Museum Obtains Jacob Lawrence Work." Cleveland Plain Dealer, March 3, 1994, 7-E. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 7-E url: Cleveland Museum of Art, “The Cleveland Museum of Art Acquires Important Work by American Painter Jacob Lawrence,” February 28, 1994, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr3867 DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. page number: Mentioned: pp. 268-269, 298; Reproduced: p. 269 url: Nesbett, Peter T. and Michelle DuBois. Jacob Lawrence: Paintings, Drawings, and Murals (1935-1999), A Catalogue Raisonné. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: vol. 2, p. 113, no. P49-06 url: Nesbett, Peter T. and Michelle DuBois, eds. Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence. Exh. Cat. Washington, D.C.: Phillips Collection, 2001. page number: Mentioned: p. 129; reproduced: p. 130 url: Sims, Lowery Stokes. The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006. page number: Mentioned: p. 121; Reproduced: p. 27, no 87 url: Donley, Gregory M., "Geometric Means", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 46 no. 05, May/June 2006 page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 4 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2006-05/page/4 Cole, Mark. African American Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013. page number: Mentioned: p. 18; Reproduced: p. 4 url: Lee, Key Jo, and William Griswold. Perceptual Drift: Black Art and an Ethics of Looking. Cleveland, OH : Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 27, fig. 11 url: --- IMAGES