Jacob Lawrence : the migration series / Leah Dickerman and Elsa Smithgall ; with contributions by Elizabeth Alexander [and eleven others].

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Dickerman, Leah, 1964- (Author) Smithgall, Elsa (Author)
Corporate Authors:	Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (Host institution, Issuing body) Phillips Collection (Host institution, Issuing body)
Other Authors:	Alexander, Elizabeth, 1962- Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Washington, D.C. : The Museum of Modern Art ; 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.
Genre:	Exhibitions.
Physical Description:	191 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 32 cm
Format:	Book

Jacob Lawrence : the migration series

Published: Rappahannock Press in association with The Phillips Collection, 1993

Physical Description: 172 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 30 cm

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