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Fulton and Nostrand

1958

Jacob Lawrence

(American, 1917–2000)
Culture
America
Medium
tempera on Masonite
Measurements
Unframed: 60.9 x 76.2 cm (24 x 30 in.)
Credit Line
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 2007.158
Copyright
© The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
226B American Modern
Print
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Did You Know?

Lawrence was teaching art at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn when he created this painting.

Description

Having moved to Harlem as a teenager, Lawrence would become the first major artist trained entirely within the neighborhood’s African American community. Throughout his long career he believed art should be a quest for both self and social identity, a notion reflected in this work, one of his liveliest and largest paintings. Teeming with more than forty figures, it depicts the vibrant streetscape at the intersection of Fulton Street and Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn, near where the artist lived at the time.
A painting in muted colors with an angular depiction of a lively, crowded street with many people with dark skin tones. In the background, there are storefronts and in the foreground, many people walk around. The scene is dominated by blues and greys with pops of yellow and red.

Fulton and Nostrand

1958

Jacob Lawrence

(American, 1917–2000)
America

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