Ellerton M. and Edith K. Jetté Professor of Art Tanya Sheehan has published a major research article on the 11 paintings that artist Jacob Lawrence created in 1949-50, when he was treated for anxiety and depression at Hillside Hospital in Queens. Her article, “’A Different Kind of Struggle’: Jacob Lawrence’s Hospital Series and the Politics of Art as Therapy,” appears in the June 2024 issue of The Art Bulletin, the College Art Association’s flagship journal, which features on its cover a painting from Lawrence’s Hospital series titled In the Garden (1950, North Carolina Museum of Art). At midcentury, critics praised the Hospital series for its similarities to the asylum art of Van Gogh and its apparent lack of interest in Black struggles. Sheehan’s reinterpretation of Lawrence’s work shows, however, that he had much to say about the social and psychological conditions of African Americans in picturing the hospital’s predominantly white patients. Entering into conversation with Hillside’s clinical practices, his paintings offer powerful statements about both the aesthetics and politics of art as therapy.