Jacob Lawrence, "Artist With Tools," 1994
Jacob Lawrence, Artist With Tools (1994)
Can a Game Be Literature?

Mark's Pages

April 25, 2013:

Street scenes in watercolor, 1933.

Curves of women's dresses. Hat boxes, handbags. Workman with cigarette and tool bag. Newspaper boy with the day's headlines.

Just that moment, in the old country, brown shirted agents of the state rifle the artist's empty apartment. The ocean in-between is present in all these drawings.