Jacob Lawrence
Lifeboat
1944
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Jacob Lawrence
Lifeboat
1944
Physical Qualities
Opaque watercolor over graphite, Sheet: 568 x 785 mm. (22 3/8 x 30 7/8 in.)
Image: 529 x 746 mm. (20 13/16 x 29 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Purchased as the gift of the Art Committee of the Women's Cooperative Civic League
Object Number
1946.135
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1946; Downtown Gallery, New York
Morgan Dowty, BMA, "1939: Exhibiting Black Art at the BMA," June 13 - October 28, 2018.
James Smalls, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Henry Ossawa Tanner and his Influence in America," 7 June 2006 - 3 December 2006.
BMA, "The Face of America: Modernist Art 1910-1950," 9 October - 29 December 1996.
BMA, "BMA Collects: African-American Art," 21 January - 18 March 1990.
Lent to White House Executive Offices, Washington, D.C., 19 April - 15 September 1965.
Lent to Office of the Secretary of Labor, Dept. of Labor, Washington, D.C., 3 August 1961 - 3 August 1962.
Lent to Afro-American Newspapers, 4 August 1960 - 1 August 1961.
BMA, "Baltimore Owned Paintings by Equity Artists," 9 July - 24 September 1950.
BMA, "African Art," 1 November - 24 November 1946.
San Diego, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, "Paintings by Matisse, Tom Lewis, and Chester Hayes; Watercolor Paintings by Jacob Lawrence and Willing Howard," April 1946.
James Smalls, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Henry Ossawa Tanner and his Influence in America," 7 June 2006 - 3 December 2006.
BMA, "The Face of America: Modernist Art 1910-1950," 9 October - 29 December 1996.
BMA, "BMA Collects: African-American Art," 21 January - 18 March 1990.
Lent to White House Executive Offices, Washington, D.C., 19 April - 15 September 1965.
Lent to Office of the Secretary of Labor, Dept. of Labor, Washington, D.C., 3 August 1961 - 3 August 1962.
Lent to Afro-American Newspapers, 4 August 1960 - 1 August 1961.
BMA, "Baltimore Owned Paintings by Equity Artists," 9 July - 24 September 1950.
BMA, "African Art," 1 November - 24 November 1946.
San Diego, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, "Paintings by Matisse, Tom Lewis, and Chester Hayes; Watercolor Paintings by Jacob Lawrence and Willing Howard," April 1946.
"A Tribute to Poets Laureate of Maryland," 2 April 2000, booklet published by The State of Maryland.
Nebitt, Peter T. and Michelle DuBois, "Jacob Lawrence: Paintings, Drawings, and Murals (1935-1999) A Catalogue Raisonné," Seattle and London: University of Washington Press in association with Seattle: Jacob Lawrence Catalogue Raisonné Project, 2000, p. 87, no. P45-03, pg. 87, ill.
Inscribed: lower right in blue paint: "Jacob Lawrence 1945 / USCG"
Markings: WM: handmade J. Whatman 1942 [--]
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