Sale 2472 - African-American Fine Art, April 5, 2018

56 c JACOB LAWRENCE (1917 - 2000) A Negro Woman . Pen and ink drawing on wove paper, 1958. 241x178 mm; 9 1 / 2 x7 inches. Signed and dated in ink, lower right. With a copy of the poem, A Negro Woman , by William Carlos Williams, on the frame back. Provenance: acquired at Freeman’s, Philadelphia, February 24, 2007; private collection; Michigan. William Carlos Williams’ A Negro Woman is a poem that discusses the complexities of an African-American woman from a different world, cradling a bouquet of marigolds - comparing her role in society and her purpose with a f lower that is representative of a beautiful, different world. Jacob Lawrence illustrates the moment in the poem where she appears bare-headed, staring into the storefront. With his drawing, Lawrence captures the essence of her, an ambassador between these two worlds. [7,000/10,000]