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Jacob Lawrence
American, 1917 - 2000
Summer Street Scene in Harlem, 1948
American Painting
Tempera on gesso panel
20 1/16 in. x 24 1/8 in. (51 cm x 61.2 cm), without frame
Marion Stratton Gould Fund, 91.5
Currently on View
©2007 Jacob & Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society,NY
Jacob Lawrence chronicled the migration of African Americans from the South to the North in the first half of the 20th century. In Summer Street Scene in Harlem, Lawrence’s style incorporates the flattened surfaces, distorted shapes, and bold colors of modernism to capture the energy and vitality of life in Harlem, New York.
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