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← Jacob Lawrence
Artworks · Jacob Lawrence
62 artworks · page 2 of 2
📷 With images only (43)
In many of the communities the Negro press was read continually because of its attitude and its encouragement of the movement
1940 · Casein tempera on hardboard
18 x 12" (45.7 x 30.5 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
The trains were packed continually with migrants
1940 · Casein tempera on hardboard
18 x 12" (45.7 x 30.5 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
The migrants arrived in great numbers
1940 · Casein tempera on hardboard
12 x 18" (30.5 x 45.7 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
Living conditions were better in the North
1940 · Casein tempera on hardboard
12 x 18" (30.5 x 45.7 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
They arrived in great numbers into Chicago, the gateway of the West
1940 · Casein tempera on hardboard
12 x 18" (30.5 x 45.7 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
They also worked in large numbers on the railroad
1940 · Casein tempera on hardboard
12 x 18" (30.5 x 45.7 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
In every home people who had not gone North met and tried to decide if they should go North or not
1940 · Casein tempera on hardboard
12 x 18" (30.5 x 45.7 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
And the migrants kept coming
1940 · Casein tempera on hardboard
12 x 18" (30.5 x 45.7 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
Among one of the last groups to leave the South was the Negro professional who was forced to follow his clientele to make a living
1940 · Casein tempera on hardboard
12 x 18" (30.5 x 45.7 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
One of the main forms of social and recreational activities in which the migrants indulged occurred in the church
1940 · Casein tempera on hardboard
18 x 12" (45.7 x 30.5 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
In the North the Negro had better educational facilities
1940 · Casein tempera on hardboard
12 x 18" (30.5 x 45.7 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
They were very poor
1940 · Casein tempera on hardboard
12 x 18" (30.5 x 45.7 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
BB
Blind Beggars
1938 · Tempera over graphite on illustration board
20 1/8 × 15 in. (51.1 × 38.1 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Free Clinic
1937 · Gouache on tan wove paper, laid down on ivory cardboard
76.7 × 81.8 cm (30 1/4 × 32 1/4 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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