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Migration Series No.23: The migration spread

Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.23: The migration spread, Jacob Lawrence
Migration Series No.23: The migration spread, zoomed in
30.5 cmMigration Series No.23: The migration spread scale comparison45.7 cm

Migration Series No.23: The migration spread 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.23: The migration spread in the Kaleidoscope

Migration Series No.34: The Black press urged the people to leave the South, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.34: The Black press urged the people to leave the South

1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.44: But living conditions were better in the North, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.44: But living conditions were better in the North

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.45: The migrants arrived in Pittsburgh, one of the great industrial centers of the North, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.45: The migrants arrived in Pittsburgh, one of the great industrial centers of the North

1940 – 1941
Garveyite Family, Harlem, James Van Der Zee

Garveyite Family, Harlem

James Van Der Zee, 1924
Talking Skull, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller

Talking Skull

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, 1939
Padma Sambhava, Nicholas Roerich

Padma Sambhava

Nicholas Roerich, 1924
Migration Series No.1: During World War I there was a great migration north by southern African Americans, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.1: During World War I there was a great migration north by southern African Americans

1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.4: All other sources of labor having been exhausted, the migrants were the last resource, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.4: All other sources of labor having been exhausted, the migrants were the last resource

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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