About This Artwork
Jacob Lawrence
American, 1917-2000
Virginia Interior1942
Gouache on ivory wove paper
560 x 584 mm
Mary and Earle Ludgin Collection, 1981.1182
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Jacob Lawrence: The Frederick Douglas and Harriet Tubman Series of 1938-40," May 7-August 6, 1992.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Since the Harlem Renaissance: Sixty Years of African American Art," May 18-August 25, 1996.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Century of Collecting: African American Art in The Art Institute of Chicago,"
February 12-May, 2003.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Modern in America: Works on Paper, 1900-1950s," January 30-May 3, 2010 (no catalogue).
Publication History
Judith A. Barter et al., "American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 151.
Ownership History
Possibly the Downtown Gallery, New York. Bequeathed by Earle Ludgin to the Art Institute, 1981.