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More than 75 years ago, a young artist named Jacob Lawrence set to work on an ambitious 60-panel series portraying the Great Migration, the flight of over a million African Americans from the rural South to the industrial North following the outbreak of World War I.
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The first Great Migration, stimulated by World War I’s...
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The first Great Migration, stimulated by World War I’s extraordinary demand for manufacturing labor, drove African Americans in record numbers to major industrial centers of the North, particularly Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and New York City.
The Migration Series, originally titled The Migration of the Negro, is a group of paintings by African-American painter Jacob Lawrence which depicts the migration of African Americans to the northern United States from the South that began in the 1910s.
the migrants kept coming." In 1941, Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series, a visual narrative about the Great Migration of African Americans from the agrarian South to the industrialized cities in the North of the US, opened to much acclaim in Edith Halpert's Downtown Gallery in New York City.1
2 Σεπ 2014 · Jacob Lawrence painted “The Migration of the Negro,” a series of 60 small panels describing the passage of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North, in 1940 and 1941. The works combined the vibrancy of modernism, the content of history painting, and the urgency of political art.
Jacob Lawrence’s landmark 1941 series tells the story of the Great Migration—one of the largest demographic events of the twentieth century. This mass movement of black Americans from the rural South to urban centers in the North and West began during World War I.
12 Ιαν 1995 · Owned jointly by The Museum of Modern Art and The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C, this epic series dramatically depicts the post–World War I migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the industrial North.
