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Migration Series No.40: The migrants arrived in great numbers

Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.40: The migrants arrived in great numbers, Jacob Lawrence
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Migration Series No.40: The migrants arrived in great numbers 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. SourceSee Migration Series No.40: The migrants arrived in great numbers 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.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.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.27: Many men stayed behind until they could take their families north with them, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.27: Many men stayed behind until they could take their families north with them

1940 – 1941
Initiation, Liberia, Loïs Mailou Jones

Initiation, Liberia

Loïs Mailou Jones, 1983
The Janitor Who Paints, Palmer Hayden

The Janitor Who Paints

Palmer Hayden, 1930
Portrait of the Duchess of Urbino, Piero della Francesca

Portrait of the Duchess of Urbino

Piero della Francesca, 1465 – 1466
Migration Series No.35: They left the South in great numbers. They arrived in the North in great numbers, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.35: They left the South in great numbers. They arrived in the North in great numbers

1940 – 1941
Finale, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis

Finale

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, 1908
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

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