  About the Artwork
  
  
  Title
  Two Builders Playing Chess
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1996
  
  
  
  
  Makers
  
  
  Jacob Lawrence  (Artist)
  American, 1917-2000
  Berit Bardarson  (Printer)
  American, active 20th Century
  Marcia Bartholme  (Printer)
  American, active 20th Century
  Jacob Lawrence Catalogue Raisonné Project  (Publisher)
  American, active late 20th Century
  
  
  
  Medium
  Soft-ground etching and aquatint printed in color on white wove paper
  
  
  Dimensions
  Image: 10 7/8 × 16 3/4 inches (27.6 × 42.5 cm)
  Sheet: 19 3/4 × 25 inches (50.2 × 63.5 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Prints
  
  
  Department
  African American Art
  
  
  Credit
  Gift of the Friends of African and African American Art
  
  
  
  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’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—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  1998.163
  
  
  Copyright
  Restricted
