Confrontation at the Bridge

Artist Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917 - 2000)

Date1975

MediumGouache on paper

DimensionsSheet: 22 1/2 x 30 1/8 in. (57.2 x 76.5 cm)
Frame: 27 3/8 x 33 5/8 x 1 1/2 in. (69.5 x 85.4 x 3.8 cm)

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.77

Collections

ClassificationsPainting

Object NameGouache

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

On view

Century

Twentieth

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Signedbottom right: Jacob Lawrence 75

Exhibition HistoryPolitics and Daily Life, Palmer Museum of Art, September 21 – December 15, 2024; Looking at Who We Are: The Palmer at 50, Palmer Museum of Art, September 23 – December 18, 2022; An American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29 – May 1, 2022; February Pop-Up: Postwar Works on Paper from the Palmer Bequest, Palmer Museum of Art, February 28, 2020; An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18 – May 15, 2005; Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence, Phillips Collection and traveling, May 27 – August 19, 200; 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; Jacob Lawrence: Paintings–Lithographs, Terry Dintenfass, Inc., New York, March 4 – 24, 1978.ProvenanceTerry Dintenfass, Inc., New York Dr. and Mrs. Isaac M. Taylor, Boston Terry Dintenfass, Inc., New York; on deposit Cleveland Museum of Art, 1989–93 Acquired in 1993 from Terry Dintenfass, Inc., New YorkPublished ReferencesBerman, Avis, “Commitment on Canvas,” Modern Maturity, August–September 1986, 75 (ill.). Hills, Patricia, “Jacob Lawrence’s Paintings during the Protest Years of the 1960s.” Hills, Patricia, Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009), 253 (ill., color, fig. 192), 323 n. 63 [silkscreen illustrated in error]. Karlstrom, Paul J., “Jacob Lawrence: Modernism, Race, and Community,” in Peter T. Nesbett, Michelle DuBois, et al., Over the Line, 236. Muchnic, Suzanne, “A Painterly Panorama of Pain,” Los Angeles Times, October 19, 1986. Nesbett, Peter T., and Michelle DuBois, Jacob Lawrence, Paintings, Drawings, and Murals (1935–1999), A Catalogue Raisonné (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000), 181 (ill., color, no. P75–01). Nesbett, Peter T., Michelle DuBois, et al., Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000), 187, 191 n. 47. Nesbett, Peter T., and Michelle DuBois, eds., Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence [with additional material] (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001), 187, 191 n. 47, 236, 298 (ill., color), 332. Payson, John Whitney, and Leslie King-Hammond, Jacob Lawrence, An Overview: Paintings from 1936–1994 (New York: Midtown Payson Galleries, 1995), 8, 17 (ill., color), 25. Reif, Wanda, “From the ghetto to the gallery,” The Lancet, August 17, 2002. “Retrospective exhibit on Afro–American painter,” People’s Daily World, New York, September 30, 1987 (ill.) 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), 129, 130-131, 146n23, 147n27, 190, 191 (ill. 129, 190). Robinson, Joyce Henri, "University Park, Pennsylvania | An American Place: Selections from the James & Barbara Palmer Collection," American Art Review, Vol. XXXIII no. 4 (2021): 117, 118 (ill.). Russell, John, “Art View: The Epic of a People Writ Large on Canvas,” New York Times, October 11, 1987 Trodd, Zoe, “The Reusable Past: Abolitionist Aesthetics in the Protest Literature of the Long Civil Rights Movement” (Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 2009), 416, 449. Wheat, Ellen Harkins, Jacob Lawrence, American Painter (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986), 147, 172 (ill., color, pl. 89), 218 (ill., no. 126).