About the Artwork
Tools
1978
Jacob Lawrence
1917-2000
American
Unknown
Gouache
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)
Drawings
African American Art
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
1997.7
© 2005 Estate of Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Markings
Signed, lower right: Jacob Lawrence 78
Signed and dated in brown gouache within the image area, lower right: Jacob Lawrence 78
Provenance
1997-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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© 2005 Estate of Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Jacob Lawrence, Tools, 1978, gouache. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Friends of African and African American Art, Founders Junior Council, et al., 1997.7.
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