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Artworks from the MOMA, Museum of Modern Art , Page 4
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Migration Series No.12: The railroad stations were at times so crowded with people leaving that special guards had to be called to keep order
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.14: For African Americans there was no justice in the southern courts
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.16: After a lynching the migration quickened
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.18: The migration gained in momentum
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.20: In many of the communities the Black press was read with great interest. It encouraged the movement
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.22: Migrants left. They did not feel safe. It was not wise to be found on the streets late at night. They were arrested on the slightest provocation
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.24: Their children were forced to work in the fields. They could not go to school
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.26: And people all over the South continued to discuss this great movement
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.28: The labor agent sent south by northern industry was a familiar presence in the Black communities
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
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.32: The railroad stations in the South were crowded with northbound travelers
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.34: The Black press urged the people to leave the South
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.36: Migrants arrived in Chicago, the gateway to the West
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.38: They also worked on the railroads
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.40: The migrants arrived in great numbers
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.42: To make it difficult for the migrants to leave, they were arrested en masse. They often missed their trains
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.44: But living conditions were better in the North
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.46: Industries boarded their workers in unhealthy quarters. Labor camps were numerous
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.48: Housing was a serious problem
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.50: Race riots were numerous. White workers were hostile toward the migrant who had been hired to break strikes
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.52: One of the most violent race riots occurred in East St. Louis
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.54: For the migrants, the church was the center of life
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.56: The African American professionals were forced to follow their clients in order to make a living
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.58: In the North the African American had more educational opportunities
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.60: And the migrants kept coming
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Poem Object
André Breton, 1941
Woman in an Armchair
Pablo Picasso, 1941
Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, Pardons the Sentry
Horace Pippin, 1942
Homesteaders
William H. Johnson, 1942
Broadway Boogie Woogie
Piet Mondrian, 1942 – 1943
The Jungle
Wifredo Lam, 1943
1944-N No. 2
Clyfford Still, 1944
Figure
Clyfford Still, 1944
The Leaf of the Artichoke is an Owl
Arshile Gorky, 1944
Untitled
Barnett Newman, 1945
Agony
Arshile Gorky, 1947
Number 43
Ad Reinhardt, 1947
On Time Off Time
Dorothea Tanning, 1948
Onement, I
Barnett Newman, 1948
Number 107
Ad Reinhardt, 1950
Study for "La Combe II"
Ellsworth Kelly, 1950
The Wild
Barnett Newman, 1950
1951-T No. 3
1951
The City
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, 1950 – 1951
Triangle Form
Ellsworth Kelly, 1951
Vir Heroicus Sublimis
Barnett Newman, 1950 – 1951
Sharecropper
Elizabeth Catlett, 1952
Woman, II
Willem de Kooning, 1952
Linear Construction in Space no. 3, with Red
Naum Gabo, 1952 – 1953
White Light
Jackson Pollock, 1954
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