Images(2)

Builders No. 2, 1971

Artist Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917 - 2000)

Date1971

MediumGouache on paper

DimensionsOverall Inches: 30 x 22 inches, sight: 29-1/2 x 21-3/8 inches; Overall Centimeters: 76.2 x 55.9 cm, sight: 75 x 54.5 cm; Conservation Mat: frame: 38-1/2 x 30-5/8 x 1/2 inches (97.8 x 77.2 x 1.4 cm)

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.76

Collections

ClassificationsPainting

Object NamePainting

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

Not on view

Century

Twentieth

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Signedbottom right: Jacob Lawrence 71

Exhibition HistoryAn American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29–May 1, 2022; An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer; Palmer Museum of Art, January 18–May 15, 2005; Jacob Lawrence Memorial Exhibition: Paintings, 1937–1999, DC Moore Gallery, New York, February 6–March 3, 2001; Jacob Lawrence: American Society in Transition, San Antonio Museum of Art, March 28–June 9, 1996; Jacob Lawrence, An Overview: Paintings from 1936–1994, Midtown Payson Galleries, New York, January 12–February 25, 1995; Jacob Lawrence: American Painter, Seattle Art Museum and traveling, July 10–September 7, 1986; Builders: Jacob Lawrence Paintings, Terry Dintenfass, Inc., New York, October 16–November 3, 1973; 1972 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, January 25–March 19, 1972ProvenanceTerry Dintenfass, Inc., New York Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Nye, New York Acquired in 1988 from Terry Dintenfass, Inc., New YorkPublished References1972 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1972), 9, 36 (ill.). Builders: Jacob Lawrence Paintings (brochure) (New York: Terry Dintenfass, Inc., 1973), n.p. (no. 6). Nesbett, Peter T. and Michelle DuBois, Jacob Lawrence, Paintings, Drawings, and Murals (1935–1999), A Catalogue Raisonné (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000), 176 (ill., color, no. P71–02). Payson, John Whitney and Leslie King-Hammond, Jacob Lawrence, An Overview: Paintings from 1936–1994 (New York: Midtown Payson Galleries, 1995), n.p., 18 (ill., color), 25. Robinson, Joyce Henri et al. A Gift From the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), 130, 131, 190 (ill. 130, 190). Wheat, Ellen Harkins, Jacob Lawrence, American Painter (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986), 143–45, 217 (ill., no. 121).