Lawrence’s WAM artwork

Confrontation at the Bridge 

Jacob Lawrence

1975

Color silkscreen on paperboard

Jacob Lawrence was commissioned for the American celebration of its Bicentennial. Lawrence was asked by Transworld Art to create a piece about something in American history after the revolution. His inspiration was from a civil rights movement during the 1965 voter registration campaign in which Dr. Martin Luther King organized a non violent protest from Alabama to march up to the capital, Montgomery. At the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the protestors were confronted by state troopers called by George Wallace, the governor of Alabama. A violent assault by the state troopers resulted, and the event became known as “Bloody Sunday”.

 

Concert

Jacob Lawrence

1950

Gouache on paper

The 1920s, The Migrants Cast their Ballots

Jacob Lawrence 

1976

Serigraph