Kansas was now the skirmish ground of the Civil War.

Jacob Lawrence; Ives-Sillman, Inc.; Founders Society of the Detroit Institute of Arts; Sirocco Screenprinters, Kansas was now the skirmish ground of the Civil War.

Jacob Lawrence, artist

1917–2000

Ives-Sillman, Inc., designer

1958–1978

Founders Society of the Detroit Institute of Arts, publisher

founded 1919

Sirocco Screenprinters, printer

founded 1950

Kansas was now the skirmish ground of the Civil War., 1974–1977

Where object was made: New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Material/technique: screen print; Domestic Etching paper

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 354 x 510 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 13 15/16 x 20 1/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 510 x 657 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 20 1/16 x 25 7/8 in
Frame Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 32 1/4 x 24 1/4 x 1 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: Gift of Jeff and Mary Weinberg

Accession number: 2020.0068.10

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Jacob Lawrence and The Legend of John Brown

In the mid-1850s, Brown and four of his sons settled in Kansas Territory and joined the fight for Kansas to enter the Union as a “free” state that outlawed slavery. After the city of Lawrence was sacked by pro-slavery forces in 1856, Brown and other men retaliated by brutally murdering five pro-slavery men near Pottawatomie Creek. Because of these violent interactions, the era from 1854 to 1859 became known as “Bleeding Kansas,” a tragic prelude to the American Civil War.