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Jacob Lawrence the Migration series

In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just 23 years old, completed a series of 60 small tempera paintings with text captions about the Great Migration, the mass movement of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North that began in 1915-16. Within months of its making, the Migration Series was di...

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Main Authors: Dickerman, Leah, 1964- (Author), Smithgall, Elsa (Author)
Other Authors: Alexander, Elizabeth, 1962- (Writer of supplementary textual content), Dove, Rita (Writer of supplementary textual content), Finney, Nikky (Writer of supplementary textual content), Hayes, Terrance (Writer of supplementary textual content), Jess, Tyehimba (Writer of supplementary textual content), Komunyakaa, Yusef (Writer of supplementary textual content), Roberts, Jodi (Writer of added text), Jones, Patricia Spears, 1955- (Writer of supplementary textual content), Trethewey, Natasha D., 1966- (Writer of supplementary textual content), Van Clief-Stefanon, Lyrae (Writer of supplementary textual content), Williams, Crystal, 1970- (Writer of supplementary textual content), Young, Kevin, 1970- (Writer of supplementary textual content), Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Washington, D.C. : The Museum of Modern Art ; The Phillips Collection, 2015.
Subjects:
Lawrence, Jacob, > 1917-2000. > Migration series.
Lawrence, Jacob, > 1917-2000 > Exhibitions.
African Americans in art > Exhibitions.
Rural-urban migration in art > Exhibitions.
Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
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Table of Contents:
  • Fighting blues / Leah Dickerman
  • One series, two places / Elsa Smithgall
  • The migration series, panels 1-60 / with notes by Jodi Roberts
  • The migration series poetry suite / introduction by Elizabeth Alexander
  • Poems / Yusef Komunyakaa ; Crystal Williams ; Nikky Finney ; Terrance Hayes ; Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon ; Tyehimba Jess ; Rita Dove ; Natasha Trethewey ; Patricia Spears Jones ; Kevin Young.

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