Legend of John Brown #21: After John Brown's capture, he was put on trial for his life in Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia).

Artist Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917-2000)

Date1977

Mediumcolor screenprint

Dimensionsimage: 20 × 14 in. (50.8 × 35.6 cm)
sheet: 25 3/4 × 20 in. (65.4 × 50.8 cm)
mat: 30 × 24 in. (76.2 × 61 cm)

Credit LineGift of an anonymous donor

Exhibition History"Embracing Diverse Voices: African-American Art in the Collection of the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts," KIA Galleries 3&4 (Oct. 3 - Nov. 29, 2009). "Embracing Diverse Voices: 80 Years of African-American Art," KIA Traveling Exhibition, Bakersfield Museum of Art (Dec. 13, 2012 – Mar. 10, 2013). "Embracing Diverse Voices: 90 Years of African-American Art," KIA Traveling Exhibition, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX (January 17 - March 20, 2016). "Embracing Diverse Voices: A Century of African-American Art," KIA Traveling Exhibition, North Carolina Central University Art Museum (October 7 - December 12, 2016). "The Expressionist Figure," at the KIA (January 19 - May 5, 2019). "Resilience: African American Artists as Agents of Change," at the KIA (September 14, 2019 - February 16, 2020)

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Legend of John Brown #8: John Brown's first thought of the place where he would make his attack came to him while surveying land for Oberlin College in West Virginia, 1840.

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Legend of John Brown #13: John Brown, after long meditation, planned to fortify himself somewhere in the mountains of Virginia or Tennessee and there make raids on surrounding plantations, freeing slaves.

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Legend of John Brown #22: John Brown was found "guilty of treason and murder in the first degree" and was hanged in Charles Town, Virginia, on December 2, 1859.

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Legend of John Brown #6: John Brown formed an organization among the colored people of the Adirondack woods to resist the capture of any fugitive slaves.

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