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The Peabody Essex Museum, debuted ?Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle, ?the first museum exhibition to feature the celebrated series of paintings,?Struggle: From the History of the American People (1954–56), by Jacob Lawrence. In this image: Artist Jacob Lawrence with panels 26 and 27 from ?Struggle: From the History of the American People, 1954–56. © Robert W. Kelley/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images.

Patrick Henry, 1775, Panel 1, 1955, from ?Struggle: From the History of the American People, 1954–56, egg tempera on hardboard. Collection of Harvey and Harvey-Ann Ross. © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photography by Bob Packert/PEM.

Jacob Lawrence, ?Massacre in Boston, Panel 2, 1955, from ?Struggle: From the History of the American People, 1954–56, egg tempera on hardboard. Collection of Harvey and Harvey-Ann Ross. © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photography by Bob Packert/PEM.

Jacob Lawrence, ?Rally Mohawks! Bring out your axes, and tell King George we’ll pay no taxes on his foreign tea . . . —a song of 1773, Panel 3, 1955, from Struggle: From the History of the American People, 1954–56, egg tempera on hardboard. Collection of Harvey and Harvey-Ann Ross. © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photography by Bob Packert/PEM.

Jacob Lawrence, ?I alarmed almost every house till I got to Lexington. —Paul Revere, Panel 4, 1954, from Struggle: From the History of the American People, 1954–56, egg tempera on hardboard. Private collection. © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Jacob Lawrence, . . . ?we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honour —4 July 1776, Panel 6, 1955, from ?Struggle: From the History of the American People, 1954–56, egg tempera on hardboard. Collection of Harvey and Harvey-Ann Ross. © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Bob Packert/PEM.

Jacob Lawrence, ?The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country. —Thomas Paine, 1776, Panel 7, 19561954, from ?Struggle: From the History of the American People, 1954–56, egg tempera on hardboard. The Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation. © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Bob Packert/PEM.

Jacob Lawrence, . . . ?again the rebels rushed furiously on our men. —a Hessian soldier, Panel 8, 1954, from Struggle: From the History of the American People, 1954–56, egg tempera on hardboard. Collection of Harvey and Harvey-Ann Ross. © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photography by Bob Packert/PEM.

Jacob Lawrence, ?Defeat, Panel 9, 1954, from ?Struggle: From the History of the American People, 1954–56, egg tempera on hardboard. Private collection. © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photography by Greg Staley.

Jacob Lawrence, ?We crossed the River at McKonkey’s Ferry 9 miles above Trenton . . . the night was excessively severe . . . which the men bore without the least murmur . . . —Tench Tilghman, 27 December 1776, Panel 10, 1954, from Struggle: From the History of the American People, 1954–55, egg tempera on hardboard. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2003.414. © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Jacob Lawrence, ?120.9.14.286.9.33-ton 290.9.27 be at 153.9.28.110.8.19.255.9.29 evening 178.9.8 —an informer’s coded message, Panel 11, 1955, from ?Struggle: From the History of the American People, 1954–55, egg tempera on hardboard. Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, gift of Dr. Herbert Kayden and Family in memory of Dr. Gabrielle H. Reem. © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Jacob Lawrence, ?Victory and Defeat, Panel 13, 1955, from ?Struggle: From the History of the American People, 1954–56, egg tempera on hardboard. Collection of Harvey and Harvey-Ann Ross. © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photography by Bob Packert/PEM.

Jacob Lawrence, reproduction image of Peace, Panel 14, 1955, from ?Struggle: From the History of the American People, 1954–56, egg tempera on hardboard. Location unknown. © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Jacob Lawrence, ?We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility . . . —17 September 1787, Panel 15, 1955, from ?Struggle: From the History of the American People, 1954–56, egg tempera on hardboard. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Francis H. Burr Memorial Fund, Richard Norton Fund, Henry George Berg Bequest Fund, Anonymous Fund in memory of Henry Berg, and Alpheus Hyatt Fund. © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle /Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Jacob Lawrence, ?Listen, Father! The Americans have not yet defeated us by land; neither are we sure they have done so by water—we therefore wish to remain here and fight our enemy . . . —Tecumseh to the British, Tippecanoe, 1811, Panel 21, 1956, from ?Struggle: From the History of the American People, 1954–56, egg tempera on hardboard. Collection of Harvey and Harvey-Ann Ross. © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Bob Packert/PEM.

Jacob Lawrence, ?Trappers, Panel 22, 1956, from ?Struggle: From the History of the American People, 1954–56, egg tempera on hardboard. Collection of Robert Gober and Donald Moffett. © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Bob Packert/PEM.

Jacob Lawrence, ?I cannot speak sufficiently in praise of the firmness and deliberation with which my whole line received their approach . . . —Andrew Jackson, New Orleans, 1815, Panel 25, 1956, from ?Struggle: From the History of the American People, 1954–56, egg tempera on hardboard. Collection of Harvey and Harvey-Ann Ross © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Bob Packert/PEM.

Jacob Lawrence, ?Peace, Panel 26, 1956, from ?Struggle: From the History of the American People, 1954–56, egg tempera on hardboard. Collection of Bill and Holly Marklyn. © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Jacob Lawrence, ?. . . for freedom we want and will have, for we have served this cruel land long enuff . . . —a Georgia slave, 1810, Panel 27, 1956, from Struggle: From the History of the American People, 1954–56, egg tempera on hardboard. Private collection. © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Jacob Lawrence, ?Old America seems to be breaking up and moving Westward . . . —an English immigrant, 1817, 1956, Panel 30, from ?Struggle: From the History of the American People ? , 1954–56, egg tempera on hardboard. Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, gift of Dr. Herbert Kayden and Family in memory of Dr. Gabrielle H. Reem. © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.