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Artist

Jacob Lawrence (Maker), Burr Miller (Printer), Himan Brown (Publisher)

Title

Windows

Date

1977

Century

20th century

Medium & Support

Color offset lithograph on paper

Edition

64/300

Dimensions

Sheet: 21 3/4 x 25 3/8 in. , Image: 17 7/8 x 21 7/8 in.

Style

American Scene-Urban

Object Type

Prints

Credit Line

Black Mountain College Collection, gift of the Midgard Foundation and Phillip C. Broughton & David L. Smith

Accession Number

2004.14.61

Copyright

In Copyright
© The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

This image provides a “window” onto Lawrence’s Harlem, NY, community, which played a central role for the artist personally and professionally. “[Harlem] was my life. It was a very exciting place. I never lived any place else where I had this kind of rapport with the community. It was a very cohesive community. You knew people. You didn’t know their names, but you’d pass people on the street and see the face[s] over and over again.” Harlem was also where Lawrence developed close professional relationships with other African American artists,including Romare Bearden, Charles Alston, and Augusta Savage. Lawrence gained national recognition for his Migration of the Negro seriesof paintings, published in 1941 by the WPA, and later taught at Black Mountain College during the 1946 summer session.

Exhibition Title: Asheville Art Museum: An Introduction to the Collection
Label Date: 2020
Type: Object Entry
Written by: Cindy Buckner

• African American