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For 40 years, John Brown reflected in the hopeless and miserable conditions of the slaves, between 1974 and 1977

Ives-Sillman, Inc., American, founded 1958
Jacob Lawrence, American, 1917-2000
Sirocco Screenprinters, American

Screenprint printed in color on wove paper

Overall: 20 × 14 inches (50.8 × 35.6 cm)

Commissioned by Founders Society Detroit Institute of Arts, 1978

2000.108.2

Department

African American Art

Harlem renaissance

History (discipline)

Screen printing

Table (support furniture)

Signed, lower right: Jacob Lawrence 1977

Inscribed in pencil, lower left: #2 H.C. I/XX Signed and dated in pencil, lower right: Jacob Lawrence 1977

2000-present, found in collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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

Jacob Lawrence; Ives-Sillman, Inc., For 40 years, John Brown reflected in the hopeless and miserable conditions of the slaves, between 1974 and 1977, screenprint printed in color on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Commissioned by Founders Society Detroit Institute of Arts, 1978, 2000.108.2.