Subway - Home From Work (In the Evening the Mother and Father Come Home from Work) (Primary Title)
"Subway - Home from Work (In the Evening the Mother and Father Come Home from Work)" (Alternate Title)

Jacob Lawrence, American, 1917 - 2000 (Artist)

Educational
1943
American
Paintings
Works On Paper
gouache on paper
Place Made,United States
Framed: 22 3/4 × 29 5/8 in. (57.8 × 75.2 cm)
Image: 14 3/8 × 21 3/4 in. (36.5 × 55.2 cm)
44.18.1
Not on view
Signed lower center right: "J. Lawrence"; Signed and dated lower right center of mat:"J. Lawrence 1943"
Inscribed in the margin, bottom left, in faint letters in graphite: "HOME FROM WORK"
Gift of the Alexander Shilling Fund
The Modern City: Urban Experience and Identity in the Art of the United States, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil, 8/27/2022 - 1/30/2023

"Edith Halpert and the Rise of American Art", The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, October 18, 2019 - February 9, 2020.

“Look Here: Speed” exhibition, VMFA, September 6, 2006 – January 7, 2007

“Generations: African American Art in the VMFA Collection”, June 2003

"Jacob Lawrence, Paintings & Graphics from 1936-1978," Chrysler Museum, Norfolk (11 October - 18 November 1979).

"American Painting & Sculpture 1900-1945," Mint Museum, Charlotte (12 November - 23 December 1978).

"A Selection of American Paintings from the Present Day," Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence (January 1944).

"Harlem," Downtown Gallery (1943) no. 10.
© artist or artist’s estate

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