No. 3 For 12 years, John Brown engaged in land speculations and wool merchandising; all this to make some money for his greater work which was the abolishment of slavery.: Museum O
No. 3 For 12 years, John Brown engaged in land speculations and wool merchandising; all this to make some money for his greater work which was the abolishment of slavery.: Date: 1977. Created by: Jacob Lawrence, American, 1917 - 2000. Print
The object in the museum catalogue
A screen print from the series “The Legend of John Brown” by Jacob Lawrence. The print depicts a kneeling John Brown, dressed in black, hammering a wooden marker into the ground while surveying land. To the proper right of Brown is a black, open briefcase and a yellow tripod. A yellow flag, in the bottom left of the print, has three strings connected to it. The two outward strings are stretched to create a right angle and the third string is connected to the wooden marker Brown is hammering. The land is brown with a large patch of green grass to the proper left of Brown.
On the front of the print, the artist wrote the series number and edition in the lower left corner [#3 51/60] and signed and dated in the lower right corner [Jacob Lawrence 1977].
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1977
- Created by: Jacob Lawrence, American, 1917 - 2000
- Printed by: Ives-Sillman, Inc., American, founded 1966
- Subject of: John Brown, American, 1800 - 1859
- Type: screen prints
- Medium: printing ink on printing paper
- Dimensions: 20 x 25 in. (50.8 x 63.5 cm)
- Place printed: New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Antislavery
- Topic: Art
- Topic: Labor
- Topic: Resistance
- Topic: Slavery
- Topic: U.S. History, 1815-1861
- Object number: 2007.6.1.3
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © 2015 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
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