JACOB LAWRENCE (1917 - 2000) In spite of a price on his head, John Brown, in 1859, liberated 12 Negroes from Missouri plantations.
Color screenprint on Domestic etching paper, 1977. 353x507 mm; 14x20 inches, full margins. Signed, dated, and numbered 49/60 and "#16" in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Ives-Sillman, New Haven, with the blind stamp lower right. Published by the Founders Society of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, with the blind stamp lower right.
Plate 16 from the portfolio The Legend of John Brown. Nesbett L77-5.
