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Jacob Lawrence American, 1917-2000

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Artwork Date 1978

Artist Jacob Lawrence

Life Dates 1917-2000

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Gouache

Dimensions Sheet: 23 1/8 × 19 inches (58.7 × 48.3 cm) Framed: 29 3/4 × 25 1/8 × 1 1/4 inches (75.6 × 63.8 × 3.2 cm)

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Department African American Art

Credit Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Friends of African and African American Art, Founders Junior Council, and the J. Lawrence Buell, Jr. Fund, Josephine and Ernest Kanzler Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Alvan Macauley, Jr. Fund, K. T. Keller Fund, Laura H. Murphy Fund

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. 1997.7

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Signed Signed, lower right: Jacob Lawrence 78

Inscriptions Signed and dated in brown gouache within the image area, lower right: Jacob Lawrence 78

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1997-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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No. 13

Theodore Brenson

1955

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