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Market Scene
Jacob Lawrence1966
Chrysler Museum of Art
Norfolk, United States
The work is a painted image of a marketplace in Nigeria. Several black figures engage in commerce, with a man and woman in the center talking with a trader over a bolt of cloth. A woman in the left edge and a woman on the right edge of the scene each carries a baby on her back, though the figure on the left also carries wares on her head. A chicken walks past and several other figures in the background are also conducting business.
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Details
- Title: Market Scene
- Creator: Jacob Lawrence
- Creator Lifespan: 1917/2003
- Creator Nationality: American
- Creator Birth Place: Atlantic City, New Jersey
- Date Created: 1966
- Physical Dimensions: 10 1/2 × 14 1/2 in. (26.7 × 36.8 cm)
- Credit Line: Museum purchase
- Provenance: The artist; sold via his gallery, Terry Dintenfass Gallery in New York, to a private collector in Massachusetts in 1966; purchased by the Chrysler Museum of Art in 2018 from the private collector through the artist's gallery.
- Type: Painting
- Medium: Gouache
- Art Form: Painting
- Support: Paper
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