The Military Strategist Sahuguet
Enrico Baj
Contemporary Art
These three screenprints represent a later period in Jacob Lawrence’s career, when he turned his attention to printmaking. Extending a theme from his earlier work—the sixty panels of his landmark Migration Series (1941)—here he continues to treat the history of African Americans who had migrated to the North in great numbers between the 1920s and the 1940s.The artist said:
To me, migration means movement. There was conflict and struggle. But out of the struggle came a kind of power and even beauty. “And the migrants kept coming” is a refrain of triumph over adversity.
The ’20’s . . . The Migrants Cast Their Ballots shows black people exercising the right to vote. The Builders and Harlem Street Scene show Lawrence’s interest in the vibrancy of everyday life—not only in the particular activities shown, but in the humanity and dignity of the people.
MEDIUM
Color screenprint and collage on brocade
DATES
1971
DIMENSIONS
35 1/4 x 23 7/8 in. (89.5 x 60.6 cm)
ACCESSION NUMBER
84.230.1
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Dr. Samuel S. Mandel
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
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