Museum object · Visual Arts
No. 11 John Brown took to guerilla warfare.
1977
New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A screen print from the series “The Legend of John Brown” by Jacob Lawrence. The print depicts three men on horseback on brown land. The top left person is wearing a dark green shirt while riding a brown horse with a pistol and belts of bullets. The right most person is wearing a dark green coat and riding a black horse while carrying a rifle. The bottom and center person is wearing all black and riding a white horse while carrying a rifle. On the front of the print, the artist wrote the series number and edition in the lower left corner [#11 51/60] and signed and dated in the lower right corner [Jacob Lawrence 1977].
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Catalog reference: 2007.6.1.11
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