Graduation

Prints and Drawings

1948

Jacob Lawrence
American, 1917-2000

This drawing is one of six that Jacob Lawrence drew as illustrations for Langston Hughes’s 1947 book of poetry, One-Way Ticket. In its remarkable feeling for pattern and rhythm, the drawing has a symbiotic relationship with the poem.

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Artist: Jacob Lawrence
Title: Graduation
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.: 1948
Medium: Brush and black ink, over graphite, on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 72 × 49.8 cm (28 3/8 × 19 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Hartman
Reference Number: 1997.429

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