Library Paradise
“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.” – Jorge Luis Borges In honor of National Library Week (April 10-16, 2011), let’s look at how far The Phillips Collection library has...
View ArticleA Microsite for Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series
If you’ve been to the Phillips, you’ve likely encountered Jacob Lawrence’s epic Migration Series, a sequence of 60 paintings of which the Phillips owns 30 (the rest live at the Museum of Modern Art in...
View ArticleDeconstructing Lawrence’s Struggle Series: Panel 1
This spring, former Phillips curator Beth Turner taught an undergraduate practicum at the University of Virginia focusing on Jacob Lawrence’s Struggle series. In this multi-part blog series, responses...
View ArticleDeconstructing Lawrence’s Struggle Series: Panel 12
Jacob Lawrence, Struggle … From the History of the American People, no. 12: And a Woman Mans a Cannon (Molly Corbin, Defense of Ft. Washington, North Manhattan Island, November 16, 1776), 1955. Egg...
View ArticleDeconstructing Lawrence’s Struggle Series: Panel 8
This spring, former Phillips curator Beth Turner taught an undergraduate practicum at the University of Virginia focusing on Jacob Lawrence’s Struggle series. In this multi-part blog series, responses...
View ArticleDeconstructing Lawrence’s Struggle Series: Panel 13
This spring, former Phillips curator Beth Turner taught an undergraduate practicum at the University of Virginia focusing on Jacob Lawrence’s Struggle series. In this multi-part blog series, responses...
View ArticleDeconstructing Lawrence’s Struggle Series: Panel 17
This spring, former Phillips curator Beth Turner taught an undergraduate practicum at the University of Virginia focusing on Jacob Lawrence’s Struggle series. In this multi-part blog series, responses...
View ArticleDeconstructing Lawrence’s Struggle Series: Panel 21
Jacob Lawrence, Struggle … From the History of the American People, no. 21: Listen, Father! The Americans have not yet defeated us by land; neither are we sure they have done so by water—we therefore...
View ArticleDeconstructing Lawrence’s Struggle Series: Panel 23
Jacob Lawrence, Struggle … From the History of the American People, no. 23: if we fail, let us fail like men, and expire together in one common struggle . . .— Henry Clay, 1813, 1956. Egg tempera on...
View ArticleDeconstructing Lawrence’s Struggle Series: Panel 24
This spring, former Phillips curator Beth Turner taught an undergraduate practicum at the University of Virginia focusing on Jacob Lawrence’s Struggle series. In this multi-part blog series, responses...
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