Colorblock screenprint of person with dark skin tone reading at candlelit desk, seen from behind

Contemplation, from the series The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture

Artist Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917 - 2000)

Date1993

MediumColor screenprint

Dimensionssheet/object: 32 in x 22 in; plate/image: 28 1/2 in x 18 1/2 in

ClassificationPrint

Credit LineMary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Gift of Evelyn Salk, in memory of her husband Erwin. A. Salk

Object number2001.13.11

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