JACOB LAWRENCE EXHIBIT

 Darrell and I went into Seattle to the Seattle Art Museum to see the new Jacob Lawrence Exhibit, The American  Struggle.

The exhibit is the collection of paintings interpreting pivotal moments in American History.

It was fascinating.

    "The paintings which I propose to do will depict the struggles of a people to create a nation and their attempt to build a democracy.  This work will begin with the causes and events leading into the American Revolutionary War and end with the sailing of the American Fleet around the world in 1908.  Between these two events will be depicted the great migration westward which occurred during the greater part of the nineteenth century, and incidents leading up to and including the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution.
    These paintings will be executed in 'egg tempura' on sixty gesso panels, sixteen by twelve inches in size.
Since I have just about completed the research phase of this work and have begun the actual paintings, (six have been completed to date) I estimate that this project should be completed in the Fall of 1956.
On the completion of this work I shall exhibit it at the Alan Gallery in New York City.  I also plan to explore the possibilities of having it published."

Jacob Lawrence, December 16, 1954

The Tree exhibit in the lobby

"Rich Black Specimen #460" Sculpture by Hank Willis Thomas 

Panel 5, We have not property! We have no wives! No children! We have no city! No country!  --petition of many slaves, 1773

Panel 6, ...we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honour -- 4 July 1776

Panel 8, ...again the rebels rushed furiously on our men. --a Hessian soldier, from a letter written in 1777 recounting the British defeat at the Battle of Bennington.

 

Panel 9, Defeat -- depicting the American's defeat by the British at Philadelphia in September 1777.

Panel 18, In all your intercourse with the natives, treat them in the most friendly and conciliatory  manner which their own conduct will admit... --Jefferson to Lewis & Clark, 1803
This panel shows Sacajawea standing next to her brother, Chief Cameahwait.

Panel 24, Of the Senate House, the President's Palace, the barracks, the dockyard... nothing could be seen except heaps of smoking ruins... --a British officer at Washington, 1814

Panel 26, Peace

We really enjoyed the exhibit and highly recommend it.  SAM is selling tickets with a time to enter in an attempt to keep the viewers to a somewhat reasonable limit.    It will be in Seattle until only May 23, 2021.

Afterwards, we walked up to Pike Place Market.  There were more people there than we thought there would be.  We went down to Honest Biscuits and picked up a couple of sandwiches.  Darrell tried the Pimento, he loved it.  I had a biscuit with scrambled eggs and chirizo.  We love their gluten-free biscuits.  We took a pack of four home, too.

Here are a few pictures from in front of Honest Biscuits showing the construction going on down below.  

And looking out at the sound...

While walking back to the car in the rain, we had to wind our way amongst the overcrowded tourists, some even without masks.  It was lunchtime at the Market.

We took our sandwiches down to Diagonal Park and sat in the truck and ate them.  Yum.