Home Chores
Artist
Jacob Lawrence
(American, 1917 - 2000)
Date1945
MediumOpaque watercolor and graphite on paper
DimensionsUnframed: 29 1/2 × 21 1/16 inches (74.93 × 53.5 cm)
Framed: 37 1/2 × 29 1/4 × 3 inches (95.25 × 74.3 × 7.62 cm)
Framed: 37 1/2 × 29 1/4 × 3 inches (95.25 × 74.3 × 7.62 cm)
Credit LineAnonymous gift
Object numberF69-6
Signedu.r.: Jacob Lawrence - 1945 [copyright symbol]
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Gallery LabelShallow space, tilted perspective, and planes of flat color define Jacob Lawrence's Home Chores. Together, these elements depict a woman toiling over a sink of dishes in a Harlem, New York, housing project. Lawrence manipulated opaque watercolor to create the textures of the room. He rubbed away areas of green to create a textured floor and spread diluted wash across the yellow walls to achieve a mottled effect.
Lawrence made opaque watercolors, prints, and collages to explore social issues affecting African Americans through subjects from both history and daily life.
Copyright© The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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