Object Details
- Creator
- Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000
- Halpert, Edith Gregor, 1900-1970
- Subject
- Lawrence, Jacob
- Place of publication, production, or execution
- No place, unknown, or undetermined
- Physical Description
- Letter : 4 p. : handwritten ; 25 x 16 cm.
- Summary
- Discusses sales of his work and what he is working on currently (pen and ink drawings "on the south"). He gives his impressions of St. Augustine as a hostile city for an African American and mentions that he is working his experiences into a series of drawings on "how a Negro sees the South."
Written on letterhead of the U.S. Coast Guard Training Station. - Citation
- Jacob Lawrence. Jacob Lawrence letter to Edith Gregor Halpert, 1944 Jan.. Downtown Gallery records, 1824-1974. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Use Note
- Current copyright status is undetermined
- Location Note
- Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560
- 1944 Jan.
- Record number
- (DSI-AAA)15163
- Type
- Correspondence
- Place
- St. Augustine, Fla.
- See more items in
- Downtown Gallery records, 1824-1974, bulk 1926-1969
- Archives of American Art
- Topic
- African Americans
- Art market
- Record ID
- AAADCD_item_15163
