JACOB LAWRENCE (1917-2000)

The Legend of John Brown: three prints

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JACOB LAWRENCE (1917-2000)
The Legend of John Brown: three prints
three screenprints in colors, 1977, on Domestic Etching paper, each signed and dated in pencil, proofs outside of the edition of 60, published by the Founders Society of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, with their blindstamp, generally in good condition, one examined out of frame
Each Image: 14 x 20 in. (356 x 508 mm.)
Each Sheet: 20 x 25¾ in. (508 x 654 mm.) (3)

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Nesbett L77-5

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Including: No. 3. For 12 years, John Brown engaged in land speculations and wool merchandising; all this to make some money for his greater work which was the abolishment of slavery.; No. 7. To the people he found worthy of his trust, he communicated his plans.; and No. 9 Kansas was now the skirmish ground of the Civil War.

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