St. Marc
- On View
- Visual Arts Gallery
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- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience.
- Created by
- Lawrence, Jacob, American, 1917 - 2000
- Subject of
- Louverture, Toussaint, Haitian, 1743 - 1803
- Printed by
- Stovall, Lou, American, 1937 - 2023
- Date
- 1994
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 32 1/8 x 22 1/8 in. (81.6 x 56.2 cm)
- Description
- This silkscreen print depicts a man in a dark red coat with a black sash and tall crowned hat. Wearing white trousers and tall black boots with gold spurs, he faces the grey horse in front of him and points with his right hand. His back is to the viewer. He stands on a rocky outcrop with sparse grasses. The image is surrounded by a wide white margin, with the chop mark of the print shop, Workshop Inc. in the lower left corner.
- Place printed
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- Haiti, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America
- Portfolio/Series
- The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture
- Classification
- Visual Arts
- Type
- screen prints
- Topic
- African diaspora
- Art
- Colonialism
- Decolonization
- Freedom
- French colonialism
- Men
- Military
- Resistance
- Slavery
- Violence
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2008.12.12
- Restrictions & Rights
- © 2020 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.