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

Migration Series No.7: The migrant, whose life had been rural and nurtured by the earth, was now moving to urban life dependent on industrial machinery, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.7: The migrant, whose life had been rural and nurtured by the earth, was now moving to urban life dependent on industrial machinery

1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.16: After a lynching the migration quickened, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.16: After a lynching the migration quickened

1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.53: African Americans, long-time residents of northern cities, met the migrants with aloofness and disdain, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.53: African Americans, long-time residents of northern cities, met the migrants with aloofness and disdain

1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.13: The crops were left to dry and rot. There was no one to tend them, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.13: The crops were left to dry and rot. There was no one to tend them

1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.23: The migration spread, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.23: The migration spread

1940 – 1941
Blind Singer, William H. Johnson

Blind Singer

William H. Johnson, 1940
Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata, Giotto di Bondone

Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

Giotto di Bondone, 1295 – 1300
Migration Series No.48: Housing was a serious problem, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.48: Housing was a serious problem

1940 – 1941
Shakuntala, Nandalal Bose

Shakuntala

Nandalal Bose, 1952
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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