ID: 700009583 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009583	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

The Shoemaker (drawing (visual work); Lawrence, Jacob (American painter, 1917-2000); 1945; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, U...; 46.73.2)

Note: Illustrates one of the occupations available to African American workers in Harlem in the mid 1940s. Lawrence invokes political commentary about the state of these occupations due to the cramped position of the cobbler's body as he works in the shoe shop.

Titles:

The Shoemaker (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

drawing (visual work) [300033973] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

drawings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1945

Creator Display:

Lawrence, Jacob (American painter, 1917-2000) [preferred]

Lawrence, Jacob (American painter, 1917-2000) [500027690]

Locations:

Current: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, United States) [500125157] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 46.73.2

Credit Line: George A. Hearn Fund, 1946

Display Materials: Watercolor and gouache on paper

	watercolor (paint) [300015045]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

	gouache (paint) [300070114]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

	paper (fiber product) [300014109]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)

Dimensions: 57.8 x 78.7 cm

Cultures:

American (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Harlem Renaissance [300121558] (preferred,N/A)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, Americas| The, modern American, modern North American, African American)

General Subject:

genre (preferred)

human figures

activity

Creation Number: 46.73.2

Copyright: © 2015 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Provenance: [Downtown Gallery, New York, until 1946; sold to MMA]

Inscriptions: Signed and dated (lower right): Jacob Lawrence 1945; signed, dated, and inscribed (verso): The Shoemaker/ 1946/ Jacob Lawrence

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
The Shoemaker	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) "The Shoemaker," accessed 29 October 2018

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) "The Shoemaker," accessed 29 October 2018

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) "The Shoemaker," accessed 29 October 2018