Harvey Ross

“We were immediately moved by what we saw, a more inclusive story about those involved in creating a better society that included women, African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants.”-Harvey Ross

Join us for this lively conversation with Harvey Ross who reflects on his journey as a collector and how he and his late wife Harvey-Ann’s passion for William Gropper and socially conscious art led them to discover Jacob Lawrence’s Struggle series. 

For more than two decades, Harvey and his late wife Harvey-Ann made it their mission to acquire, study, and champion Jacob Lawrence’s seminal yet lesser-known historical epic, Struggle…From the History of the American People (1954-56). Today, 15 of the original 30 Struggle panels reside in his collection—all currently on view in Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle. 

IMAGE: Jacob Lawrence, Panel 1, …Is Life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?—Patrick Henry, 1775, 1955, Egg tempera on hardboard, 12 x 16 in., Collection of Harvey and Harvey-Ann Ross, from Struggle: From the History of the American People, 1954–56 © 2021 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York