メトロポリタン美術館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (メトロポリタン美術館Instagram)「“The lone farmer, bearing the burden of a wagonload of hay, carries the weight of independence forward, serving as a key figure of human survival in a hostile environment.”⁣ So wrote the late art historian David C. Driskell of this work by the iconic modernist artist #JacobLawrence, born September 7, 1917. ⁣ ⁣ This year, his birthday falls on #LaborDay—and the strength, struggles, and contributions of laborers to the history of the United States are explored this work, panel 6 from his 30-panel series “Struggle: From the History of the American People,” now on view at The Met.⁣ ⁣ Lawrence excerpted the panel’s title—“...we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honour - 4 July 1776,”—from the final words of the Declaration of Independence, imagining the solemn pledge as the responsibility of every American in a functioning democracy. ⁣ ⁣ Visit “Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle” through November 1. Learn more at the link in bio. @metamericanwing @metmodern ⁣ ⁣ 🎨 Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917–2000). “...we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honour - 4 July 1776,” 1955. Panel 6 from “Struggle: From the History of the American People,” 1954–56. (Image one: detail. Image two: full.) © 2020 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York」9月8日 5時38分