id: 165157 accession number: 2007.158 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2007.158 updated: 2025-02-09 06:14:17.172000 Fulton and Nostrand, 1958. Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917–2000). Tempera on Masonite; unframed: 60.9 x 76.2 cm (24 x 30 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 2007.158 © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. title: Fulton and Nostrand title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1958 creation date earliest: 1958 creation date latest: 1958 current location: 226B American Modern creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. --- culture: America technique: tempera on Masonite department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- 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: Unframed: 60.9 x 76.2 cm (24 x 30 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed lower right "Jacob Lawrence 58" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Annual Exhibition: Sculpture, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 19. 1958-January 4, 1959.', 'opening_date': '1959-01-04T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'American Sculpture and Painting: American National Exhibition in Moscow, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, July 25-September 5, 1959; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 28-November 15, 1959.', 'opening_date': '1959-07-25T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Between the Fairs: Twenty-Five Years of American Art, 1939-1964, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June 24-September 23, 1964.', 'opening_date': '1964-06-24T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Contemporary Urban Visions, Wollman Hall, New School Art Center, New School for Social Research, New York, January 25-February 24, 1966.', 'opening_date': '1966-01-25T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Crossing State Lines: Twentieth-Century Art from Private Collections in Westchester and Fairfield Counties, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, March 26-June 18, 1995.', 'opening_date': '1995-03-26T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Jacob Lawrence Memorial Exhibition: Paintings, 1937-1999, DC Moore Gallery, New York, February 6-March 3, 2001.', 'opening_date': '2001-02-06T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Syncopated Rhythms: 20th-Century African American Art from the George and Joyce Wein Collection, Boston University Art Gallery, November 18, 2005-January 22, 2006.', 'opening_date': '2005-11-18T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (The Alan Stone Gallery, New York, NY, sold to Alexander and Sylvian Rittmaster) date: 1958 footnotes: *
Jacob Lawrence sold the painting directly to the Alan Gallery in 1958. 
citations: Alexander [1916-1969] and Sylvian Rittmaster [1917-1978], Woodmere, NY date: 1958-1981 footnotes: *
Although Slyvian Rittmaster died in 1978, the 1981 Sotheby Parke Bernet catalogue lists the painting as coming from their collection, hence listing the painting's dates with the Rittmasters as ending with 1981 rather than 1978. 
citations: (Sotheby Park Bernet, New York, NY, May 29,1981, lot 182, sold to the Terry Dintenfass Gallery) date: 1981-1983? footnotes: citations: (Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY, sold to George and Joyce Wein) date: 1983 footnotes: citations: George [b. 1925] and Joyce [1928-2005] Wein, New York, NY, consigned to the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery date: 1983-2007 footnotes: citations: (Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 2007 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2007- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Frascina, Francis. "Institutions, Culture, and America's 'Cold War Years': The Making of Greenberg's 'Modernist Painting'," Oxford Art Journal 26 (2003). page number: Mentioned p. 84. url: Annual Exhibition: Sculpture, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1958). page number: Unpaginated, [8],[12] url: "Moscow to See Modern U.S. Art," New York Times (May 31, 1959). page number: P. 60 url: Baur, John I. H. Between the Fairs: 25 Years of America Art, 1939-1964. New York. Whitney Museum. Catalogues. 1962-64. New York: Published for the Whitney Museum of American Art by F.A. Praeger, 1964. page number: P. 88 url: Kramer,Hilton. "In the Museums," Art in America 52 (April 1964). page number: P. 42 url: Illustration for Victor S. Navasky, "With Malice Toward All," New York Times Book Review (February 27, 1966). page number: P. 4 url: Chwast, Seymour, and Steven Heller. The Art of New York. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1983. page number: P. 18, 76 url: Berman,Avis. 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