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Jacob Lawrence,
American,
(1917–2000)
The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture, 1986-1997 20th Century
The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture, 1986-1997 20th Century
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Creation Place:
North America, United States
Marie-Louise and Samuel R. Rosenthal Fund
2020.056-068 2021.054
The Grinnell College Museum of Art has 13 prints from a total of 15 created by Lawrence between 1986 and 1997 that depict scenes from the life of Toussaint L’Ouverture, the former slave who became a leader in the Haitian Revolution, the only successful slave rebellion in history to result in the founding of a new country, the Republic of Haiti, in 1804.
The prints themselves are based on a series of paintings first produced by Jacob Lawrence between 1936 and 1938, the first series of his career based on a single subject. He chose to depict the life of L’Ouverture due to the absence of important Black leaders in the history books he had read in school. He produced 41 paintings in the original series in 1938, when he was 21 years of age. The paintings are now preserved in the Amistad Research Center, Tulane University, New Orleans.
The prints themselves are based on a series of paintings first produced by Jacob Lawrence between 1936 and 1938, the first series of his career based on a single subject. He chose to depict the life of L’Ouverture due to the absence of important Black leaders in the history books he had read in school. He produced 41 paintings in the original series in 1938, when he was 21 years of age. The paintings are now preserved in the Amistad Research Center, Tulane University, New Orleans.
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