No. 16, Although the Negro was used to lynching, he found this an opportune time for him to leave where one had occurred
Lawrence, Jacob
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1940-1941Description
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. full view
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Social realism, Rural-urban migration, Painting, American --20th century, Race relations, African Americans in art
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