Lydia Gordon presents JACOB LAWRENCE: THE AMERICAN STRUGGLE

September 22, 2020

Join Lydia Gordon, Associate Curator for Exhibitions and Research at the Peabody Essex Museum and recent Montserrat Faculty, to discuss the nationally touring exhibition “Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle“!”Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle“!
Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle is the first museum exhibition of the series of paintings Struggle: From the History of the American People (1954–56) by the best known black American artist of the 20th century, Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000). Created during the modern civil rights era, Lawrence’s thirty intimate panels interpret pivotal moments in the American Revolution and the early decades of the republic between 1770 and 1817 and, as he wrote, “depict the struggles of a people to create a nation and their attempt to build a democracy.”

Tuesday, October 6
11:00am–12:00pm