Jacob Lawrence and the Children of Hiroshima

Please join Millennium Art Salon’s co-founder Mel Hardy and Phillips Chief Curator Elsa Smithgall as they lead a tour of Jacob Lawrence and the Children of Hiroshima on Thursday, October 13 at 1pm.

This exhibition reexamines the impact of the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima through a conversation between Jacob Lawrence’s Hiroshima series of silkscreen prints and selected drawings by the children of Hiroshima’s Honkawa Elementary School. Exhibition organized in collaboration with All Souls Church, Unitarian, Washington, DC. All are welcome to attend; this tour is included in museum admission.

Left to Rigth: Jacob Lawrence, Hiroshima Series: Farmers, 1983, Color screenprint on Somerset paper, 13 x 10 in., Published by Limited Editions Club, New York, Ed. 19/35, The Phillips Collection, Gift of Nora Lee and Jon Sedmak / © 2022 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Takako-Namura, Girl Age 9, Woman in Kimono and Hat