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 five individuals shown running from right to left and carrying rifles. One man, wearing blue pants, turns back the way he came, raising his left hand with an object in it. A spray of red emanates from his chest. The five people are shown running through tall grasses. 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
- 1988
- Object number
- 2008.12.6
- 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 x 32 1/16 in. (55.9 x 81.5 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_2008.12.6
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5157dc76d-4d5a-4283-8a9e-131f2a09a2e4
