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Jacob Lawrence, Market Scene (2021) The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York
The Getty Foundation in Los Angeles will award 19 museums with grants totalling $1.55m as part of its Paper Project initiative, a programme that aims to support exhibitions and research centred on prints and drawings. “Although prints and drawings are the historic core of many museum collections, they do not often benefit from the spotlight of large exhibitions or glossy catalogues,” says Heather MacDonald, the senior programme officer at the Getty Foundation. “The motivation for supporting these projects, all led by mid-career curators, was to ensure their work had greater visibility, both within their own institution and to the field at large.”
May 19, 2021
WASHINGTON, DC As part of the museum’s centennial celebrations, The Phillips Collection presents
Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle, the first reunion since 1958 of the celebrated artist’s 30-panel series
Struggle: From the History of the American People. The exhibition includes two panels discovered in 2020 and 2021, offering a rare opportunity to reconstitute the lost narrative of the series and with it a radically integrated view of American history. The five-stop national exhibition tour organized by the Peabody Essex Museum culminates at the Phillips from June 26 to September 19, 2021.
Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) was one of the greatest American artists of the 20th century. Early in his career, he developed his unique multi-panel format and painted narratives portraits of the lives of famed African Americans. In 1942, Duncan Phillips purchased the odd-numbered panels of his acclaimed
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Struggle: From the History of the American People, was identified in a Manhattan flat.
The 30 panels from the series were sold off individually, against Lawrence’s wishes, in the late 1950s and early ’60s, with the whereabouts of five of the paintings subsequently lost.
Remarkably, the discovery in Manhattan was the second in as many weeks. Last October, a visitor to ‘Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art – an exhibition that reunited part of the series – realised that panel 16 was hanging on the wall of his neighbours, who had bought it at a charity auction some 60 years previously.