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dc.coverage.temporalcreation date: 1940-1941en_US
dc.creatorLawrence, Jacoben_US
dc.date1940-1941en_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-08T14:43:56Z
dc.date.available2009-06-08T14:43:56Z
dc.date.issued1940-1941en_US
dc.identifier104407en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/39920en_US
dc.descriptionJacob 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.descriptionfull viewen_US
dc.format.extent45.72 x 30.48 cm (18 x 12 inches)en_US
dc.format.mediumgessoen_US
dc.format.mediumhardboarden_US
dc.format.mediumtemperaen_US
dc.relation.ispartof134446en_US
dc.rights©The Museum of Modern Art, New Yorken_US
dc.subjectRiotsen_US
dc.subjectSocial realismen_US
dc.subjectLabor unionsen_US
dc.subjectRural-urban migrationen_US
dc.subjectPainting, American --20th centuryen_US
dc.subjectRace relationsen_US
dc.subjectArt, Modern --20th centuryen_US
dc.subjectAfrican Americans in arten_US
dc.titleNo. 50, Race riots were very numerous all over the Northen_US
dc.title.alternativeRace riots were very numerous all over the North because of the antagonism that was caused between the Negro and white workers. Many of these riots occurred because the Negro was used as a strike breaker in many of the Northern industries.en_US
dc.typeImageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcodeMOMA-P0662en_US
dc.publisher.institutionRepository: Museum of Modern Art (New York, New York, United States) ID: 28.1942.25en_US
vra.culturalContextAfrican Americanen_US
vra.culturalContextAmericanen_US
vra.techniquepainting (image-making)en_US
vra.worktypePaintingen_US
dc.contributor.displaypainter: Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917-2000)en_US


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