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Migration Series No.9: They left because the boll weevil had ravaged the cotton crop

Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.9: They left because the boll weevil had ravaged the cotton crop, Jacob Lawrence
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Migration Series No.9: They left because the boll weevil had ravaged the cotton crop 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.9: They left because the boll weevil had ravaged the cotton crop in the Kaleidoscope

Migration Series No.6: The trains were crowded with migrants, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.6: The trains were crowded with migrants

1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.26: And people all over the South continued to discuss this great movement, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.26: And people all over the South continued to discuss this great movement

1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.28: The labor agent sent south by northern industry was a familiar presence in the Black communities, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.28: The labor agent sent south by northern industry was a familiar presence in the Black communities

1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.6: The trains were crowded with migrants, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.6: The trains were crowded with migrants

1940 – 1941
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
Headlines, Charles White

Headlines

Charles White, 1944
Saint Anthony Tempted by a Lump of Gold, Fra Angelico

Saint Anthony Tempted by a Lump of Gold

Fra Angelico, 1436
The Baptism of Christ, Piero della Francesca

The Baptism of Christ

Piero della Francesca, 1448 – 1450
Migration Series No.16: After a lynching the migration quickened, Jacob Lawrence

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

1940 – 1941
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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