Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000)
Windows
signed and dated 'Jacob Lawrence 77' (lower right)
gouache and pencil on paper
18 x 22 in. (45.7 x 55.9 cm.), image; 18½ x 22½ in. (47 x 57.2 cm.), overall


Provenance
Collection of Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence, Seattle, Washington.
By bequest to the present owner.


Literature
S. Lewis, M.J. Hewitt, Jacob Lawrence, exhibition catalogue, Santa Monica, California, 1982, n.p., illustrated.
S. Lewis, L. Sullivan, "Jacob Lawrence Issue," Black Art, 5, 3, New York, 1982, p. 57, illustrated.
S. Lewis, M.J. Hewitt, Jacob Lawrence: Paintings and Drawings, exhibition catalogue, Claremont, California, 1989, p. 35, illustrated.
C.L. Benson, Jacob Lawrence, exhibition catalogue, Savannah, Georgia, 1998, p. 16, fig. 20, illustrated.
P.T. Nesbett, M. DuBois, Jacob Lawrence: Paintings, Drawings, and Murals (1935-1999), A Catalogue Raisonné, Seattle, Washington, 2000, p. 186, no. P77-07, illustrated.
D.C. Moore Gallery, Jacob Lawrence: Moving Forward, Paintings, 1936-1999, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2008, pp. 57, 77, illustrated.


Exhibited
New York, Terry Dintenfass Inc., Jacob Lawrence: Paintings―Lithographs, March 4-24, 1978, no. 8.
Santa Monica, California, Santa Monica College, The Museum of African-American Art, Jacob Lawrence, April 1982.
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Bank of Nova Scotia, and elsewhere, Arts America Program, United States Information Agency, Jacob Lawrence: Paintings and Drawings, February 1989, no. 5.
Vienna, Austria, United States embassy residence, December 1993-97, on loan.
Savannah, Georgia, Savannah College of Art and Design, Pinnacle Gallery, Jacob Lawrence, January 8-March 1, 1998, no. 20.
Seattle, Washington, University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery, Jacob Lawrence: Painting Life, July 2-September 27, 1998, no. 138.
New York, D.C. Moore Gallery, Jacob Lawrence: Moving Forward, Paintings 1936-1999, February 13-March 22, 2008.
New York, D.C. Moore Gallery, Jacob Lawrence: Builders, May 5-June 4, 2011.