Dreams+No.+2

Date: 1965
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1986/1986.6.95_1a.jpg?itok=y5nEORVT width="208" height="307" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/dreams-no-2-14372"]] || Title: **Dreams No. 2**

Artist: **Jacob Lawrence** Born: Atlantic City, New Jersey 1917 Died: Seattle, Washington 2000

Medium: tempera on fiberboard Dimensions: 35 3/4 x 24 in. (90.8 x 61.0 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation

Accession: 1986.6.95 || Jacob Lawrence was inspired by the women in his Harlem neighborhood. Like his own mother, they worked hard to support their families and survived on very little money. In this painting a girl rests on a chair in front of two large windows. In one, a tall, elegant lady stands with a bouquet of flowers and in the other, a bride and groom dance and throw confetti. Windows and doorways were focal points of New York's brownstone neighborhoods, creating a link to life on the streets outside. But the bride and groom are clearly in a landscape beyond the city, and in this sense the windows have become screens onto which the young woman projects her fantasies.
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