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Migration Series No.3: From every southern town migrants left by the hundreds to travel north

Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941

Migration Series No.3: From every southern town migrants left by the hundreds to travel north, Jacob Lawrence

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30.5 cm

Migration Series No.3: From every southern town migrants left by the hundreds to travel north scale comparison

45.7 cm

Migration Series No.3: From every southern town migrants left by the hundreds to travel north is a Harlem Renaissance Tempera and Hardboard Painting created by Jacob Lawrence from 1940 to 1941. It lives at the The Phillips Collection in the United States. The image is © Estate of Jacob Lawrence / ARS, New York, and used according to Educational Fair Use, and tagged Political Work. Source See Migration Series No.3: From every southern town migrants left by the hundreds to travel north in the Kaleidoscope

Migration Series No.15: There were lynchings, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.15: There were lynchings

Migration Series No.23: The migration spread, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.23: The migration spread

Migration Series No.36: Migrants arrived in Chicago, the gateway to the West, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.36: Migrants arrived in Chicago, the gateway to the West

Migration Series No.47: As the migrant population grew, good housing became scarce. Workers were forced to live in overcrowded and dilapidated tenement houses, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.47: As the migrant population grew, good housing became scarce. Workers were forced to live in overcrowded and dilapidated tenement houses

Migration Series No.52: One of the most violent race riots occurred in East St. Louis, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.52: One of the most violent race riots occurred in East St. Louis

Reverie, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller

Reverie

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, 1930

Adoration of the Kings in the Snow, Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Adoration of the Kings in the Snow

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1567

Ripley scroll (Beinecke version, panels 11, 12, 13), George Ripley

Ripley scroll (Beinecke version, panels 11, 12, 13)

George Ripley, 1570

Migration Series No.49: They found discrimination in the North. It was a different kind, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.49: They found discrimination in the North. It was a different kind

Poem Object, André Breton

Poem Object

André Breton, 1941

Woman in an Armchair, Pablo Picasso

Woman in an Armchair

Pablo Picasso, 1941

Girl with a rose, Lê Phổ

Girl with a rose

Lê Phổ, 1941

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