{ "data": { "id": 357759, "accession_number": "2019.79.10", "share_license_status": "Copyrighted", "tombstone": "The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture: Contemplation, 1993. Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917\u20132000). Silkscreen on paper; sheet: 81.3 x 55.9 cm (32 x 22 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Agnes Gund in honor of Gordon Gund, 2019.79.10. \u00a9 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York", "current_location": null, "title": "Contemplation", "series": "The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture", "creation_date": "1993", "creation_date_earliest": 1993, "creation_date_latest": 1993, "artists_tags": [ "Black American Artists", "male", "gender unknown" ], "culture": [ "America" ], "technique": "silkscreen on paper", "support_materials": [], "department": "Prints", "collection": "PR - Screenprint", "type": "Print", "measurements": "Sheet: 81.3 x 55.9 cm (32 x 22 in.)", "dimensions": { "sheet": { "height": 0.813, "width": 0.559 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": "\u00a9 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York", "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": { "current": [ { "id": 541557, "title": "New Narratives: Contemporary Works on Paper", "description": "New Narratives: Contemporary Works on Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 19, 2023-April 14, 2024).", "opening_date": "2023-11-19T05:00:00" } ], "legacy": [] }, "provenance": [ { "description": "Collection of Health Legacy of Cleveland, Inc., Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1999-2007", "sortorder": 1 }, { "description": "Swann Galleries, New York, NY", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "February 6, 2007", "sortorder": 2 }, { "description": "Swann Galleries, New York, NY", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "February 19, 2008", "sortorder": 3 }, { "description": "DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": null, "sortorder": 4 }, { "description": "the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "June 3, 2019", "sortorder": 5 } ], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Jacob Lawrence reinterpreted a series of paintings to make these prints, changing their forms, composition, colors, and scale\u2014a process that he described as \u201canother creative step.\u201d", "description": "These prints reinterpret a series of paintings that African American artist Jacob Lawrence made about Toussaint L\u2019Ouverture, a Haitian revolutionary. Born into slavery, L\u2019Ouverture led an uprising that freed Haiti from European rule. After hearing the story as a young man and being struck that it had been omitted from his formal education, Lawrence began to paint episodes from L\u2019Ouverture\u2019s biography, using bright colors and simple forms to evoke its drama.", "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79877614" ], "internet_archive": [] }, "citations": [ { "citation": "Nesbett, Peter T., Jacob Lawrence, and Patricia Hills. Jacob Lawrence: The Complete Prints, 1963-2000 : a Catalogue Raisonne\u0301. Seattle: Francine Seders Gallery, in association with University of Washington Press, 2001.", "page_number": "p. 71-85, nos. L86-2\u2013L97-5", "url": null } ], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.79.10", "images": {}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Gift of Agnes Gund in honor of Gordon Gund", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 357759, "creators": [ { "id": 4050, "description": "Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917\u20132000)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "artist", "biography": "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.", "name_in_original_language": null, "birth_year": "1917", "death_year": "2000", "use_in_caption": true, "include_extent": false, "weight": 1 }, { "id": 370547, "description": "Lou Stovall Workshop, Inc.", "extent": "printed by", "qualifier": null, "role": "printer", "biography": null, "name_in_original_language": null, "birth_year": "1937", "use_in_caption": false, "include_extent": false, "weight": 2 }, { "id": 62635, "description": "Amistad Research Center", "extent": "published by", "qualifier": null, "role": "publisher", "biography": null, "name_in_original_language": null, "use_in_caption": false, "include_extent": false, "weight": 3 } ], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "2019-06-03T00:00:00-04:00", "sortable_date": 1993, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "1993", "collapse_artists": true, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "component", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": "2019.79", "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": [], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-03-27 00:02:52.369000" } }