Collection For 12 years, John Brown engaged in land speculations and wool merchandising; all this to make some money for his greater work which was the abolishment of slavery

For 12 years, John Brown engaged in land speculations and wool merchandising; all this to make some money for his greater work which was the abolishment of slavery

Jacob Lawrence American, 1917-2000
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For 12 years, John Brown engaged in land speculations and wool merchandising; all this to make some money for his greater work which was the abolishment of slavery
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For 12 years, John Brown engaged in land speculations and wool merchandising; all this to make some money for his greater work which was the abolishment of slavery

1941

Jacob Lawrence

1917-2000

American

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Gouache on white wove paper

Overall: 13 5/8 × 19 3/4 inches (34.6 × 50.2 cm)

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African American Art

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Lowenthal

55.354.3

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1945, Downtown Gallery (New York, New York, USA).
after 1945, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Lowenthal (New York, New York, USA);
1955-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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"Art: John Brown's Body." Newsweek, December 24, 1945, 87.

Berryman, Florence S. "News of Art and Artists: John Brown's Struggles." The Sunday Star, Washington, DC, October 6, 1945, B-5.

B.W. "Saga of John Brown." Art Digest 20 (December 15, 1945): 17.

"John Brown Series by Jacob Lawrence." Portland Museum Bulletin 8 (July 1947): 2.

"Accessions, 1955-1956." Bulletin of the DIA 35, no. 2 (1955-56): 53.

"Artist Who Stuck to His Story: Jacob Lawrence's John Brown." The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, December 20, 1978, A8-A9.

The Legend of John Brown. Exh. cat., the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1978, p. 18 (ill.).

Sharp, Ellen. "The Legend of John Brown and the Series by Jacob Lawrence." Bulletin of the DIA 67, no. 4 (1993): 26 (ill.).

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© 2005 Estate of Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Jacob Lawrence, For 12 years, John Brown engaged in land speculations and wool merchandising; all this to make some money for his greater work which was the abolishment of slavery, 1941, gouache on white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Lowenthal, 55.354.3.

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For 12 years, John Brown engaged in land speculations and wool merchandising; all this to make some money for his greater work which was the abolishment of slavery
For 12 years, John Brown engaged in land speculations and wool merchandising; all this to make some money for his greater work which was the abolishment of slavery
For 12 years, John Brown engaged in land speculations and wool merchandising; all this to make some money for his greater work which was the abolishment of slavery

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