Panel 22

Trappers, Panel 22, 1956, Inscription markings indiscernible, Jacob Lawrence, from Struggle: From the History of the American People, 1954–56, Collection of Robert Gober and Donald Moffett, © 2019 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Look Closer

This illustration appears in one of Lawrence’s source books. A group of trappers and fur traders gather around a fire. The central figure points to a suspended elk, a detail that may have inspired Lawrence’s own composition for his painting.

Hunter and Trappers, engraving illustrated in Alan C. Collins, The Story of America in Pictures, Doubleday & Co, 1953. Photo by Bob Packert/PEM
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