Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle is organized by the Peabody Essex Museum. Share your impressions with us on social media using #AmericanStruggle.
The exhibition, organized by PEM, will tour nationally. The paintings of the series, along with works by contemporary artists Derrick Adams, Bethany Collins, and Hank Willis Thomas, resonate with the effortful pursuit of democracy, justice, truth, and inclusion - struggles ongoing around our nation and the world today. history by pairing image and text, quoting a range of voices and rendering figures from prominent Founding Fathers to underrepresented historical actors. Utilizing historical fact to underscore universal values, he created a broader narrative of U.S. Reunited for the first time in more than sixty years, the Struggle paintings revive Lawrence's way of reimagining American history as shared history.
Created during the modern civil rights era, Lawrence’s thirty intimate panels interpret pivotal moments in the American Revolution and the early decades of the republic between 17 and, as he wrote, “depict the struggles of a people to create a nation and their attempt to build a democracy.” Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle is the first museum exhibition of the series of paintings Struggle: From the History of the American People (1954–56) by the best known black American artist of the 20th century, Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000).
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