Another of the social causes of the migrants' leaving was that at times they did not feel safe

Lawrence, Jacob

The Migration of the Negro, No. 22

dc.coverage.temporal	creation date: 1940-1941	en_US
dc.creator	Lawrence, Jacob	en_US
dc.date	1940-1941	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2009-06-08T14:35:21Z
dc.date.available	2009-06-08T14:35:21Z
dc.date.issued	1940-1941	en_US
dc.identifier	104415	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/39863	en_US
dc.description	Jacob Lawrence is most widely known for the Migration of the Negro, an epic narrative series of sixty paintings that he completed in 1941 at the age of twenty-four. The series, which was painted in bright tempera paints on small hardboard panels — all of which are accompanied by captions — depicts the flight of millions of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North during and after the first World War. The series is a unique blend of sensibilities, part mural painting, part social realism, and part modernist abstraction.	en_US
dc.description	full view	en_US
dc.format.extent	30.48 x 45.72 cm (12 x 18 inches)	en_US
dc.format.medium	gesso	en_US
dc.format.medium	hardboard	en_US
dc.format.medium	tempera	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	134452	en_US
dc.rights	©The Museum of Modern Art, New York	en_US
dc.subject	Imprisonment	en_US
dc.subject	Social realism	en_US
dc.subject	Rural-urban migration	en_US
dc.subject	Painting, American --20th century	en_US
dc.subject	Race relations	en_US
dc.subject	African Americans in art	en_US
dc.title	Another of the social causes of the migrants' leaving was that at times they did not feel safe	en_US
dc.title	The Migration of the Negro, No. 22	en_US
dc.title.alternative	Another of the social causes of the migrants' leaving was that at times they did not feel safe, or it was not the best thing to be found on the streets late at night. They were arrested on the slightest provocation	en_US
dc.type	Image	en_US
dc.rights.access	Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only	en_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode	MOMA-P0753	en_US
dc.publisher.institution	Repository: Museum of Modern Art (New York, New York, United States) ID: 28.1942.11	en_US
vra.culturalContext	African American	en_US
vra.culturalContext	American	en_US
vra.technique	painting (image-making)	en_US
vra.worktype	Painting	en_US
dc.contributor.display	painter: Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917-2000)	en_US