The Library
Jacob Lawrence (created by)
1978 (Date manufactured/created)
ink
paper, print
color screenprint on heavy cream wove paper; 1978; full margins; signed, titled, dated, and numbered 31/100 in pencil lower margin. printed by the Screen Workshop, East Hampton, NY. Published by Fuve Towns Music and Art Foundation, Woodmere, NY. This print is based on Lawrence's 1966 gouache painting, which shares the theme of libraries with his paintings "The Libraries Are Appreciated", 1943, from the Harlem Series, and "Library II" and "Library III", both 1960.
Museum Purchase; Acquisitions Fund, 2019
2020.7.1