Exhibition Catalog | Jacob Lawrence
Explore a gift of drawings, prints, and paintings by African American modernist Jacob Lawrence addressing Black history and civil rights, public life, faith, and creativity.
Explore a gift of drawings, prints, and paintings by African American modernist Jacob Lawrence addressing Black history and civil rights, public life, faith, and creativity.
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CATS 53–55<br />
The Builder’s Suite<br />
1996<br />
Three soft ground<br />
etchings with aquatint<br />
19½ × 24¾ in.<br />
2013.112–114<br />
T<br />
he three prints in The Builder’s Suite—<br />
representations of carpenters working,<br />
collaborating, and playing games—are the only color<br />
etchings <strong>Lawrence</strong> ever made. Although the prints<br />
feature the same saturated blues, reds, and yellows<br />
common in his other works, the soft ground etching<br />
and aquatint techniques seen here enabled him to<br />
create textures and tones unlike the areas of flat color<br />
typically found in his silkscreens and lithographs.<br />
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