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Harlem Street Scene

Colorful screenprint depicting a variety of brown-skinned figures walking down a street. On the left, a man in blue carries a stringed instrument; in the center, a man in black leaning on a red cane walks beside a child wearing white; a smaller child plays with chalk on the sidewalk. In the background, a woman wearing a yellow dress emerges from a doorway.
© 2018 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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  • Colorful screenprint depicting a variety of brown-skinned figures walking down a street. On the left, a man in blue carries a stringed instrument; in the center, a man in black leaning on a red cane walks beside a child wearing white; a smaller child plays with chalk on the sidewalk. In the background, a woman wearing a yellow dress emerges from a doorway.

Date:

1975

Artist:

Jacob Lawrence
American, 1917-2000

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Jacob Lawrence

Title

Harlem Street Scene

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.

1975

Medium

Color screenprint on cream wove paper

Dimensions

Image: 62.4 × 47.3 cm (24 5/8 × 18 5/8 in.); Sheet: 77.5 × 57.3 cm (30 9/16 × 22 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Constance Ives

Reference Number

1996.338

Copyright

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

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