  
  About the Artwork
  
  
  Title
  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
  
  
  Artwork Date
  between 1974 and 1977
  
  
  
  
  Makers
  
  
  Jacob Lawrence  (Artist)
  American, 1917-2000
  Ives-Sillman, Inc.  (Collaborator)
  American, founded 1958
  Sirocco Screenprinters  (Printer)
  American
  Founders Society  (Publisher)
  
  
  
  Medium
  Screen print in color on wove paper
  
  
  Dimensions
  Image: 14 &Atilde;&#151; 20 inches (35.6 &Atilde;&#151; 50.8 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Prints
  
  
  Department
  African American Art
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase, Commissioned by Founders Society Detroit Institute of Arts, 1978
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum&acirc;&#128;&#153;s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems&acirc;&#128;&#148;no longer assigned&acirc;&#128;&#148;that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  F1983.18.3
  
  
  Copyright
  Restricted
  
  
  
