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Jacob Lawrence - John Brown's victory at Black Jack drove those proslavery to new fury; aiul those anti-slavery to new efforts.
Courtesy Detroit Institute of Arts.
A ? primitive " by intention, Jacob Lawrence has painted an exceptional series of historical novels in tempera or gouache on small composition panels. Their penetrating originality, episodic scale, economic grasp of content, and essentially three-dimensional, though flat, vividly painted figures and shapes, give him an insistent claim to international recognition. The Migration of the Xdgro Xorth-wards anti The Life of John Brown are among his best-known narratives. Thev promise great distinction lor his intended treatment ol the American Revolution.
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