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Painting
Summer Street Scene in Harlem
Jacob Lawrence, 1917 - 2000
Lawrence, Jacob
United States
1917 - 2000
Male
20 1/16 x 24 1/8 in. (51 x 61.2 cm)
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Tempera
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1948
1948
1948
1900-2000, 20th century, cityscapes, Images of Black People, New York city, paintings, Social Realism
Painting
Jacob Lawrence put his own stylistic innovations on the flattened surfaces, distorted shapes, and bold colors of modernism. Here his vibrant palette and energetic composition express the joy and vitality of a summer in Harlem. Children play with their soap box and approach a shaved ice vendor; adults gather in conversation. Lawrence moved to Harlem with his family at the age of twelve, and he was greatly influenced by the creative community flourishing there.
Lawrence chronicled the lives, accomplishments, and challenges experienced by Black communities in the United States. His best-known series, The Migration of the Negro (1941), depicted the mass movement of Black people who relocated from the American South to the North, Midwest, and West in search of economic and social mobility. Lawrence’s parents themselves moved to the North in this exodus known as the Great Migration, which took place from the 1910s through the 1970s.
[Gallery label text, 2024]
lower rightback of panel, Undated; from 1974-75 exhibitionback of panel, partly covered by another labelback of panelback of panelback of panelback of panelback of panelback of panel, orange tag with black printing
Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence
1991.5
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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Painting
Two Bridges, Washington and High, Harlem River, New York
Two Bridges, Washington and High, East River, New York (original title)
Hayley Lever, (Adelaide, Australia, 1875 - 1958, Mount Vernon, NY)
Lever, Hayley
United States
1875 - 1958
Male
13 x 16 in. (33 x 40.6 cm)
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Oil
Oil
circa 1916
1911
1921
20th century, boats, bridges, landscape, landscapes, New York city, paintings
Painting
lower right
1953.1
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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