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"tombstone": "Fulton and Nostrand, 1958. Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917\u20132000). 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. \u00a9 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.",
"current_location": "226B American Modern",
"title": "Fulton and Nostrand",
"creation_date": "1958",
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"inscription": "signed lower right \"Jacob Lawrence 58\"",
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"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.",
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"description": "Jacob Lawrence Memorial Exhibition: Paintings, 1937-1999, DC Moore Gallery, New York, February 6-March 3, 2001.",
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"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.",
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"description": "(The Alan Stone Gallery, New York, NY, sold to Alexander and Sylvian Rittmaster)",
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"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.
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"description": "(Sotheby Park Bernet, New York, NY, May 29,1981, lot 182, sold to the Terry Dintenfass Gallery)",
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"did_you_know": "Lawrence was teaching art at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn when he created this painting.",
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"description": "Having moved to Harlem as a teenager, Lawrence would become the first major artist trained entirely within the neighborhood\u2019s African American community. Throughout his long career he believed art should be a quest for both self and social identity, a notion reflected in this work, one of his liveliest and largest paintings. Teeming with more than forty figures, it depicts the vibrant streetscape at the intersection of Fulton Street and Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn, near where the artist lived at the time.",
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"citation": "Frascina, Francis. \"Institutions, Culture, and America's 'Cold War Years': The Making of Greenberg's 'Modernist Painting',\" Oxford Art Journal 26 (2003).",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, David Franklin, and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH, London: Cleveland Museum of Art ; in association with Scala Publishers, 2012.",
"page_number": "Mentioned, p. 322; reproduced p. 323.",
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"citation": "Annual Exhibition: Sculpture, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1958).",
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"citation": "\"Moscow to See Modern U.S. Art,\" New York Times (May 31, 1959).",
"page_number": "P. 60",
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"citation": "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.",
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"citation": "Kramer,Hilton. \"In the Museums,\" Art in America 52 (April 1964).",
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"citation": "Illustration for Victor S. Navasky, \"With Malice Toward All,\" New York Times Book Review (February 27, 1966).",
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"citation": "Chwast, Seymour, and Steven Heller. The Art of New York. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1983.",
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"citation": "Berman,Avis. \"Jacob Lawrence and the Making of Americans,\" ARTnews 83 (February 1984).",
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"citation": "Wheat, Ellen Harkins, Jacob Lawrence, and Patricia Hills. Jacob Lawrence, American Painter. Seattle: University of Washington Press in association with the Seattle Art Museum, 1986.",
"page_number": "P. 107,129",
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"citation": "Sotheby's (Firm). American Impressionist & 20th Century Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors & Sculpture. May 29, 1981. Lot 182.",
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"citation": "Glueck, Grace. New York: The Painted City. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, 1992.",
"page_number": "P. 54",
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"citation": "Stern, Robert A.M. et al., New York 1960 (New York: Monacelli Press, 1995).",
"page_number": "P. 1164",
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"citation": "Richard J. Powell, \"Harmonizer of Chaos,\" in Peter T. Nesbett and Michelle DuBois, eds., Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence (Seattle: University of Washington, 2000).",
"page_number": "P. 148-49",
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"citation": "Nesbett, Peter T. and Michelle DuBois, Jacob Lawrence: Paintings, Drawings, and Murals (1935-1999): A Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9. Seattle: University of Washington, 2000.",
"page_number": "P. 141",
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"citation": "Wright, Gwendolyn. \"Permable Boundaries,\" in Peter Madsen and Richard Plunz, eds., The Urban Lifeworld (London: Routledge, 2002).",
"page_number": "Reproduced p. 210",
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"citation": "Kushner, Marilyn S.\"Exhibiting Art at the American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959: Domestic Politics and Cultural Diplomacy,\" Journal of Cold War Studies 4 (Winter 2002), 24.",
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"citation": "Hills, Patricia, and Melissa Renn. Syncopated Rhythms: 20th-Century African American Art from the George and Joyce Wein Collection. Boston: Boston University Art Gallery, 2005.",
"page_number": "P. 64-65",
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"citation": "\"Harlem's Knights: Extraordinary $2 Million Bequest for Lawrence Scholars Program,\" Parsons re:D 22 (May 2005).",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art Annual Report (July 1,2006- June 30, 2007).",
"page_number": "P. 26-7, 32",
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"citation": "Adams, Henry. What's American About American Art?: A Gallery Tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008.",
"page_number": "P. 8,13, 144-145",
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"citation": "Cole, Mark. \"Jacob Lawrence's Fulton and Nostrand,\" Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 48, no. 2 (February 2008): 6-7.",
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"citation": "Gordon, Margery. \"Eyes on the Prizes,\" Art + Auction 31 (February 2008).",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, David Franklin, and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012.",
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"citation": "Cole, Mark, Amy Sparks, and Rebecca Michaels. African American Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013.",
"page_number": "P. 3,18; Reproduced p. 22",
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"citation": "Cole, Mark. \"American Art of the 1930s to 1950s,\" Cleveland Art 54 (January/February 2014).",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 62",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016.",
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"citation": "\"Recommendations from Our Curators.\u201d Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 61, no. 2 (Spring 2021): 31.",
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