Cowboys, made in 2014, presents two Black men in Western dress posed against a domestic interior, a collision of iconography that quietly destabilizes assumptions about who belongs within the mythology of the American frontier. Lawson stages the image with the careful deliberateness of a portrait painter, balancing the theatrical codes of cowboy costuming against the intimate, unguarded quality she consistently draws from her subjects. The result is neither parody nor reverence but something more psychologically layered, an act of reclamation that insists on the deep, largely suppressed history of Black cowboys in the American West while grounding that history in lived, present-day Black experience. Printed as an inkjet print and mounted on Sintra, the work carries the physical authority its scale demands, at just over a meter wide, the image commands the wall and rewards prolonged looking. Lawson's treatment of color and surface achieves a richness that elevates the photographic object toward painting, and the Sintra mounting lends the piece a clean, contemporary presence suited to a wide range of collection environments. Signed by the artist, Cowboys represents a pivotal period in Lawson's developing practice, a moment when her conceptual ambitions and her formal command were advancing in close step. This work is offered through The Studio Museum in Harlem, an institution whose mission to champion artists of African descent aligns directly with the critical project Lawson has pursued throughout her career. For collectors who engage seriously with contemporary photography and with the evolving conversation around Black representation and American identity, Cowboys offers both historical weight and enduring visual force.