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date: label: Date
content: 2012
name: label: Created by
content: Claude Lawrence, American, born 1944
notes: label: Description
content: An abstract acrylic painting by Claude Lawrence. Depicted in ruddy hues of red, brown, grey, and pink against a bright blue, the painting features abstract shapes outlined in black. Several of the shapes resemble human facial and anatomical imagery, including a smiling mouth and chin at bottom left, several eyes, a phallic form at bottom right, and a standing, abstract human figure at the right side. The painting has deckled top and bottom edges. The verso has an inscription of [MeSSAGE] in the lower right corner. Beneath this is the artist’s signature with an additional identifier of [-12] beside it.
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Abstraction
label: Topic
content: Art
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: Edgar Thomas Williams, Jr. Collection
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Auldyn Higgins Williams and E.T. Williams, Jr. in honor of Kathryn C. and Kenneth I. Chenault
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2015.145.9
objectType: label: Type
content: paintings
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Artists Rights Society
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: acrylic on paper (fiber product)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 22 11/16 × 30 1/16 in. (57.6 × 76.4 cm)