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  • Image of "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.

    "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.

    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

  • Image of "Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them."--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, VIII:59. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.

    "Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them."--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, VIII:59. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.

    1958 Jacob Lawrence Born: Atlantic City, New Jersey 1917 Died: Seattle, Washington 2000 oil on fiberboard 20 3/4 x 16 3/4 in. (52.6 x 42.4 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.171 Not currently on view

  • Image of Captain Skinner

    Captain Skinner

    1944 Jacob Lawrence Born: Atlantic City, New Jersey 1917 Died: Seattle, Washington 2000 gouache on paperboard sheet: 29 1/8 x 21 1/8 in. (74.0 x 53.7 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Carlton Skinner 1990.65 Not currently on view

  • Unavailable Image Due to Copyright Restriction

    Community (study for mural, Jamaica, NY)

    1986 Jacob Lawrence Born: Atlantic City, New Jersey 1917 Died: Seattle, Washington 2000 gouache on paper sheet: 30 x 22 1/8 in. (76.2 x 56.2 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Transfer from the General Services Administration, Art-in-Architecture Program 1990.36 Not currently on view

  • Image of Dreams No. 2

    Dreams No. 2

    1965 Jacob Lawrence Born: Atlantic City, New Jersey 1917 Died: Seattle, Washington 2000 tempera on fiberboard 35 3/4 x 24 in. (90.8 x 61.0 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation 1986.6.95 Not currently on view

  • Image of Escape

    Escape

    1967 Jacob Lawrence Born: Atlantic City, New Jersey 1917 Died: Seattle, Washington 2000 brush and ink, pen and ink, crayon, and pencil on paper sheet: 22 x 29 1/2 in. (56.0 x 74.9 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation 1986.6.53 Not currently on view

  • Image of Firewood #55

    Firewood #55

    1942 Jacob Lawrence Born: Atlantic City, New Jersey 1917 Died: Seattle, Washington 2000 gouache, ink and watercolor on paper sheet: 22 3/4 x 31 in. (57.8 x 78.7 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Transfer from the U.S. Information Agency through the General Services Administration 1966.2.3 Not currently on view

  • Image of New Jersey, from the United States Series

    New Jersey, from the United States Series

    1946 Jacob Lawrence Born: Atlantic City, New Jersey 1917 Died: Seattle, Washington 2000 watercolor, gouache, and pencil on paper sheet: 24 1/8 x 20 in. (61.2 x 50.9 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.172 Not currently on view

  • Unavailable Image Due to Copyright Restriction

    On the Way

    1990 Jacob Lawrence Born: Atlantic City, New Jersey 1917 Died: Seattle, Washington 2000 Stone Press Editions (Printer) Kent Lovelace (Printer) color lithograph on paper sheet: 39 x 29 3/4 in. (99.0 x 75.6 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of the Smithsonian Resident Associate Program 1990.86 Not currently on view

  • Image of The Library

    The Library

    1960 Jacob Lawrence Born: Atlantic City, New Jersey 1917 Died: Seattle, Washington 2000 tempera on fiberboard 24 x 29 7/8 in. (60.9 x 75.8 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. 1969.47.24 Smithsonian American Art Museum
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