In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just twenty-three years old, completed a series of sixty paintings about the Great Migration, the mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North. Lawrence’s work is a landmark in the history of modern art and a key example of the way that history painting was radically reimagined in the modern era. Explore the social and cultural nuances of each of the sixty panels in Lawrence’s series on MoMA’s online exhibit:
I’ve been asked to participate in CoCA’s 24 hour marathon. I laugh at this a little, because the premise of the marathon is to put art-making into an unusual and exciting time constriction, but given my method of working, 24 hour marathons have been the only way I make any art at all. I used …
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Jacob Lawrence Migration Series
The Migration Series
In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just twenty-three years old, completed a series of sixty paintings about the Great Migration, the mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North. Lawrence’s work is a landmark in the history of modern art and a key example of the way that history painting was radically reimagined in the modern era. Explore the social and cultural nuances of each of the sixty panels in Lawrence’s series on MoMA’s online exhibit:
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2015/onewayticket/
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