Apr 03 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2698 -

Sale 2698 - Lot 91

Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
JACOB LAWRENCE (1917 - 2000)
John Brown's first thought of the place...

Color screenprint on Domestic etching paper, 1977. 353x507 mm; 14x20 inches, full margins. Signed, dated, and numbered 49/60 and "#8" 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 8 from the portfolio The Legend of John Brown. Nesbett L77-5.

Additional Details

Full title: John Brown's first thought of the place where he would make his attack came to him while surveying land for Oberlin College in West Virginia.