ID: 700009584 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009584	Record Type: Movable Work
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Blind Beggars (painting (visual work); Lawrence, Jacob (American painter, 1917-2000); 1938; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, U...; 43.47.28)

Note: Depicts a blind couple holding a beggar's cup attempting to walk down a city street while children play around them. Lawrence demonstrates concern over social issues through his work.

Titles:

Blind Beggars (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred)

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

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1938

Creator Display:

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

draftsman 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: 43.47.28

Credit Line: Gift of New York City W. P. A., 1943

Display Materials: Tempera on illustration board

	tempera [300015062]
	.......(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)

	illustration board [300014229]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, paper (fiber product), <paper by form>, pasteboard (paper), cardboard)

Dimensions: 51.1 x 38.1 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

Specific Subjects:

	blind (people) [300163825]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), groups of people, <groups of people by state or condition>, exceptional people, people with disabilities, people with physical disabilities) (AAT)

	beggar [300188618]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by activity>) (AAT)

	children (people by age group) [300025945]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by age group>, youth (people)) (AAT)

Creation Number: 43.47.28

Copyright: © 2010 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Provenance: New York City W. P. A. (until 1943; their gift to MMA)

Inscriptions: Signed and dated (lower right): J. Lawrence '38

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

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

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

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

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