id: 377635
accession number: 2019.79
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.79
updated: 2024-04-16 11:02:57.791000
The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture, 1986. Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917–2000). 15 silkscreen prints on paper; each sheet: 81.6 x 55.9 cm (32 1/8 x 22 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Agnes Gund in honor of Gordon Gund 2019.79 © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
title: The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture
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creation date: 1986
creation date earliest: 1986
creation date latest: 1986
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creditline: Gift of Agnes Gund in honor of Gordon Gund
copyright: © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: 15 silkscreen prints on paper
department: Prints
collection: PR - Screenprint
type: Print
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catalogue raisonne: Nesbett and Hills L86-2-L97-5
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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.
* Lou Stovall Workshop, Inc. - printer
* Amistad Research Center - publisher
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measurements: Each sheet: 81.6 x 55.9 cm (32 1/8 x 22 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: New Narratives: Contemporary Works on Paper
opening date: 2023-11-19T05:00:00
New Narratives: Contemporary Works on Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 19, 2023-April 14, 2024).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Collection of Health Legacy of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
date: 1999-2007
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(sale, Swann Galleries, New York, NY, February 6, 2007)
date: 2007
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(sale, Swann Galleries, New York, NY, February 19, 2008)
date: 2008
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(DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, through Agnes Gund)
date: after 2008-2019
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 2019-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Nesbett, Peter T. and Patricia Hills. Jacob Lawrence: The Complete Prints, 1963-2000, a Catalogue Raisonné. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 71-85, nos. L86-2-L97-5
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Salsbury, Britany. “Acquisitions 2019: Prints.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 60, no. 2 (March/April 2020): 22-23.
page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 23 ['L'Ouverture' and 'The Opener'].
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