2nd Jacob Lawrence painting missing for 6 decades located

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2nd Jacob Lawrence painting missing for 6 decades located

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This undated image provided by Peabody Essex Museum, of Salem, Mass., shows a 1956 painting "Immigrants admitted from all countries: 1820 to 1840—115,773," panel 28 from a private collection of a 30-panel series titled a "Struggle: From the History of the American People," by Black American artist Jacob Lawrence. The panel had been unlocated for more than sixty years, but the museum said Tuesday, March 2, 2021, it had been discovered in New York and would will join a national exhibition tour of the series. The locations of three other missing panels remain unknown., New York/Peabody Essex Museum via AP)

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SALEM, Mass. (AP) — A second panel from American artist Jacob Lawrence's sweeping series “Struggle: From the History of the American People" that has been hidden from public view for decades has been located, the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts announced Tuesday.

Officially entitled “Immigrants admitted from all countries: 1820 to 1840 — 115,773,” the painting known as panel 28 had not been seen in public since 1960 and was known only through a black-and-white reproduction. ... “We are thrilled to share news of this important discovery, especially at a time when Americans are actively engaged with democracy,” Lydia Gordon, the museum's associate curator said in a statement. The Salem-based Peabody Essex Museum organized the exhibit.

The painting will now join nearly 30 of the Black artist’s other works painted in the 1950s for the last two stops of a national tour in Seattle and Washington, D.C., museum officials said. The 30-piece series remains incomplete, as the whereabouts of three panels remain a mystery, the museum said.

The 12-inch-by-16-inch (30.5-centimeter-by-40.5-centimeter) panel was found in a New York City apartment, like another painting in the series, panel 16, that was rediscovered in a different home in October. The owner, who wants to remain anonymous, inherited the panel 28 from family, who — like the figures depicted — were immigrants.

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1. Thanks for posting. That is an important find.