Graduation
Jacob Lawrence
1948
- Medium
- Brush and black ink, over graphite, on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 72 × 49.8 cm (28 3/8 × 19 5/8 in.)
- Genre
- brush and ink
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)graphiteinkprints and drawingblack inkbrush and inkpaper (fiber product)wove paper
About
This drawing is one of six that Jacob Lawrence drew as illustrations for Langston Hughes’s 1947 book of poetry, One-Way Ticket. In its remarkable feeling for pattern and rhythm, the drawing has a symbiotic relationship with the poem.
