The Three Children of Myron Lawrence

The Three Children of Myron Lawrence , late 1830s–1840s

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: oil; canvas

Dimensions:
Canvas/Support (Height x Width x Depth): circular 76.2 x 76.2 cm
Canvas/Support (Height x Width x Depth): 30 x 30 in

Credit line: Bequest of Edith Clarke

Accession number: 1958.0038

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Exhibition Label:
"This Land," Oct-2014, Kate Meyer
Portrayed by an unknown artist with her sister Sophia and brother, Mark, the girl on the right in this group is Sara Tappan Doolittle Lawrence (1827-1911), who married Charles Robinson, the first governor of Kansas, in 1851. Sara and Charles Robinson joined the New England Emigrant Aid Company and settled in Kansas to advance the cause of abolitionism. In 1856, Sara published “Kansas: Its Interior and Exterior Life”, a study of the events surrounding Kansas’s territorial conflict.

Exhibition Label:
"Windmills to Workshops: Lawrence and the Visual Arts," Jul-2004, Kate Meyer
The girl on the right in this group is Sara Tappan Doolittle Lawrence (1827-1911), who would marry Charles Robinson in 1851. Sara Robinson, along with her husband, joined the New England Emigrant Aid Company and settled in Kansas to advance the cause of abolitionism. In 1856, Robinson published Kansas: Its Interior and Exterior Life, a study of the events surrounding the territorial conflict. Though certainly favoring an abolitionist bias in its estimation of Bleeding Kansas, the work provides an important contemporary source for the conflict. Robinson’s description of Sheriff Jones’ 1856 sacking of Lawrence conveyed the reality of frontier violence to readers back east and helped make the territorial conflict a pressing national issue. Her book included an illustration of the dramatic ruins of the Free State hotel (based on a daguerreotype) indicating the extent of destruction during the Sack of Lawrence.