Object Details
- Created by
- Jacob Lawrence, American, 1917 - 2000
- Subject of
- Toussaint Louverture, Haitian, 1743 - 1803
- Printed by
- Lou Stovall, American, 1937 - 2023
- Description
- This silkscreen print depicts a flotilla of ships just off a beach. The ships, some black with tan trim, and some grey with black trim, are scattered across the deep blue ocean surface. There are waves where the water meets the gray, clouded horizon. All the ships except for one fly the French flag. The beach, a golden brown color, is bare except for a few strands of grass and a single black tree. The image is surrounded by a wide white margin, with the chop mark of the print shop, Workshop Inc. in the lower left corner.
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- 1996
- Object number
- 2008.12.13
- Restrictions & Rights
- © 2020 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
- Type
- screen prints
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 22 1/4 x 32 1/8 in. (56.5 x 81.6 cm)
- Place printed
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- Haiti, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Portfolio/Series
- The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture
- Classification
- Visual Arts
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Topic
- African American
- African diaspora
- Art
- Colonialism
- Decolonization
- Freedom
- French colonialism
- Men
- Military
- Resistance
- Slavery
- Violence
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2008.12.13
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd50bfa06fe-3f5a-41e8-9e21-d1fa0a76170b
