Details
Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000)
Children at Play
signed 'Jacob Lawrence' (lower right)―and inscribed with title (on the reverse)
ink and wash on paper
13¼ x 16½ in. (33.7 x 41.9 cm.), image; 18 x 22 in. (45.7 x 55.9 cm.), overall
Executed circa 1955.


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


Literature
P.T. Nesbett, M. DuBois, Jacob Lawrence: Paintings, Drawings, and Murals (1935-1999), A Catalogue Raisonné, Seattle, Washington, 2000, p. 232, no. D55-01, illustrated.


Exhibited
New York, Forum Gallery, American Social Realism: 1920-1950, January 18-February 24, 2007.
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