Curator Talk - Resistance and Revolution: Jacob Lawrence's Toussaint L'Ouverture Prints

Curator Talk
Resistance and Revolution: Jacob Lawrence's Toussaint L'Ouverture Prints
October 29, 2009
Start Time: 
6:00 pm
End Time: 
7:00 pm
M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Arthur M. Sackler Museum @ 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138 Patricia Hills, Boston University Created between 1986 and 1997, these 15 silkscreen prints by Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000) tell the story of the man who was born a slave but rose to lead the liberation of Haiti. This is a collaborative program of the Harvard Art Museum and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. A reception and viewing of the prints will follow at the Rudenstine Gallery, Du Bois Institute, 104 Mt. Auburn Street. The related exhibition is open to the public September 15–December 15, 2009. Free admission. For more information, please contact Susannah Hutchison at 617-496-8576 or susannah_hutchison@harvard.edu. The M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Fund was established through the generosity of the wife, children, and friends of the late M. Victor Leventritt, Harvard Class of 1935. The purpose of the fund is to present outstanding scholars of the history and theory of art to the Harvard and Greater Boston communities.
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Patricia Hills
Professor of Art History, Boston University

In the Rudenstine Gallery -- Resistance and Revolution: Jacob Lawrence's Toussaint L'Ouverture Prints

Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000)
September 15, 2009 - December 15, 2009
General Toussaint by Jacob Lawrence
Between 1986 and 1997 Jacob Lawrence created fifteen large silk-screen prints identical to key images from his earlier 1937 series, The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture. On view at the Rudenstine Gallery during the Fall 2009 semester, the prints tell the story of Toussaint L’Ouverture, born a slave, but who rose to lead the liberation of Haiti. Captured by the invading troops of Napoleon Bonaparte, he died in a French prison the year before Haiti won its independence in 1804.
Exhibit Curator: Patricia Hills, Professor of Art History, Boston University
(C) 2009 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York