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Migration Series No.30: In every southern home people met to decide whether or not to go north

Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941

Migration Series No.30: In every southern home people met to decide whether or not to go north, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.30: In every southern home people met to decide whether or not to go north, zoomed in

30.5 cm

Migration Series No.30: In every southern home people met to decide whether or not to go north scale comparison

45.7 cm

Migration Series No.30: In every southern home people met to decide whether or not to go north is a Harlem Renaissance Tempera and Hardboard Painting created by Jacob Lawrence from 1940 to 1941. It lives at the MOMA, Museum of Modern Art in New York. 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.30: In every southern home people met to decide whether or not to go north in the Kaleidoscope

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

Migration Series No.14: For African Americans there was no justice in the southern courts, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.14: For African Americans there was no justice in the southern courts

Migration Series No.50: Race riots were numerous. White workers were hostile toward the migrant who had been hired to break strikes, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.50: Race riots were numerous. White workers were hostile toward the migrant who had been hired to break strikes

Migration Series No.20: In many of the communities the Black press was read with great interest. It encouraged the movement, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.20: In many of the communities the Black press was read with great interest. It encouraged the movement

Migration Series No.51: African Americans seeking to find better housing attempted to move into new areas. This resulted in the bombing of their new homes, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.51: African Americans seeking to find better housing attempted to move into new areas. This resulted in the bombing of their new homes

Falling Star, Romare Bearden

Falling Star

Romare Bearden, 1979

Christ Crowned with Thorns, Fra Angelico

Christ Crowned with Thorns

Fra Angelico, 1438 – 1439

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

Migration Series No.50: Race riots were numerous. White workers were hostile toward the migrant who had been hired to break strikes, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.50: Race riots were numerous. White workers were hostile toward the migrant who had been hired to break strikes

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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