Feb 14, 2013 - Sale 2303

Sale 2303 - Lot 108

Price Realized: $ 3,360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
JACOB LAWRENCE (1917 - 2000)
No. 18. July 3, 1959, John Brown stocked an old barn with guns and ammunitions. He was ready to strike his first blow at slavery.

Color screenprint on Domestic Etching paper, 1977. 508x356 mm; 20x14 inches, full margins. Signed, dated and numbered 14/60 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Ives-Sillman, New Haven, CT. Published by the Founders Society of the Detroit Institute of Arts. From The Legend of John Brown. A very good, bright impression. Nesbett L77-5.