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"In a free government, the security of civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other, in the multiplicity of sects."--James Madison, The Federalist Papers, 1788. From the series Great Ideas.
1976 Jacob Lawrence Born: Atlantic City, New Jersey 1917 Died: Seattle, Washington 2000 opaque watercolor and pencil on paper mounted on fiberboard 30 x 22 1/8 in. (76.2 x 56.2 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.170 Not currently on view
Keywords
Animal - bird - eagle
Ethnic - African-American
Figure group - family
Figure(s) in interior - domestic
History - United States - Civil Rights Movement
Object - furniture - chair
Object - furniture - table
Object - tool
painting
paint - gouache
pencil
fiberboard
paper
About Jacob Lawrence
Born: Atlantic City, New Jersey 1917 Died: Seattle, Washington 2000
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