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Free Clinic

A warm-toned watercolor painting of a crowd in a medical waiting room. On the left, brown-skinned figures wait in a line that extends into the background toward the right. Other brown-skinned figures sit on a bench in the foreground. The figures are represented in a variety of ways that indicate physical injury—some have crutches and others wear white bandages. Scientific and medical instruments are painted on the walls.
© 2018 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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  • A warm-toned watercolor painting of a crowd in a medical waiting room. On the left, brown-skinned figures wait in a line that extends into the background toward the right. Other brown-skinned figures sit on a bench in the foreground. The figures are represented in a variety of ways that indicate physical injury—some have crutches and others wear white bandages. Scientific and medical instruments are painted on the walls.

Date:

1937

Artist:

Jacob Lawrence
American, 1917-2000

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Jacob Lawrence

Title

Free Clinic

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1937

Medium

Gouache on tan wove paper, laid down on ivory cardboard

Dimensions

76.7 × 81.8 cm (30 1/4 × 32 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

H. Karl and Nancy von Maltitz Endowment

Reference Number

1990.447

Copyright

© 2018 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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