DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series:
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- TPCMIG_111008_11.JPG: Jacob Lawrence
The Migration Series
Panel No 49: They found discrimination in the North. It was a different kind.
- TPCMIG_111008_14.JPG: Panel No 51: African-Americans seeking to find better housing attempted to move into new areas. This resulted in the bombing of their new homes.
- TPCMIG_111008_19.JPG: Panel No 9: They left because the boll weevil has ravaged the cotton crop
- TPCMIG_111008_24.JPG: Panel No 17: Tenant farmers received harsh treatment at the hands of planters.
- TPCMIG_111008_26.JPG: Panel No 19: There had always been discrimination
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- Description of Subject Matter: Jacob Lawrence
The Migration Series, 1940‒41
Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series (1940–41), a sequence of 60 paintings, depicts the mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North between World War I and World War II—a development that had received little previous public attention.
Lawrence spent months distilling the subject into captions and preliminary drawings and preparing 60 boards with the help of his wife, artist Gwendolyn Knight. He created the paintings in tempera, a water-base paint that dries rapidly. To keep the colors consistent, Lawrence applied one hue at a time to every painting where it was to appear, requiring him to plan all 60 paintings in detail at once.
The series was the subject of a solo show at the Downtown Gallery in Manhattan in 1941, making Lawrence one of the first black artists to be represented by a New York gallery. Interest in the series was intense. Ultimately, The Phillips Collection and New York's Museum of Modern Art agreed to divide it, with the Phillips buying the odd-numbered paintings.
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