Clown

Artist Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917 - 2000)

Date1963

DimensionsOverall: H 24 5/16 x W 20 3/16 in. (H 61.8 x W 51.3 cm)
Framed: H 31 1/2 x W 27 1/2 x D 2 3/4 in. (H 80 x W 69.9 x D 7 cm)

Credit LineGift of Henry H. Ploch, 1991

Object number91.177

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Object NamePainting

Title Details

Primary Title Clown

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Inscriptionsrecto: l.r.: "Jacob Lawrence, 1963"Marks and Labels/Stampsback of frame: l. stamp, black ink "15090"ProvenanceCharles Alan Gallery, New York, New York; Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, New York; Henry Ploch, Clifton, New JerseyExhibition History"Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence & the Mbari Club", Chrysler Museum of Art Norfolk, VA from (10/7/2022 – 1/8/2023); The New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA ( 2/10 – 5/7/2023); The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (6/3 – 10/3/2023).
Drumthwacket Foundation, Princeton, NJ (January 28, 2011 - January 27, 2012).
"Jacob Lawence: Fifty Years of His Work," Jamaica Arts Center, Jamaica, New York, December 8, 1984-January 30, 1985.
"Fragments of American Life, An Exhibition of Paintings: Romare Bearden, Joseph Delaney, Rex Gorleigh, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Hale Woodruff," The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, January 25-March 28, 1976.
"Five Famous Black Artists: Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Horace Pippin, Charles White, Hale Woodruff, The Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Roxbury, Massachusetts, February 9-March 10, 1970.
"1964 Annual Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, (December 1964-January 1965).
"Annual Exhibition 1963: Contemporary American Painting," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, (December 1963-January 1964), no. 73.

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