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Migration Series No.24: Their children were forced to work in the fields. They could not go to school

Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.24: Their children were forced to work in the fields. They could not go to school, Jacob Lawrence
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Migration Series No.24: Their children were forced to work in the fields. They could not go to school is a Harlem Renaissance Tempera and Hardboard Painting created by Jacob Lawrence from 1940 to 1941. It lives at the MOMA, Museum of Modern Art in New York. The image is © Estate of Jacob Lawrence / ARS, New York, and used according to Educational Fair Use, and tagged Political Work. SourceSee Migration Series No.24: Their children were forced to work in the fields. They could not go to school in the Kaleidoscope

Migration Series No.9: They left because the boll weevil had ravaged the cotton crop, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.9: They left because the boll weevil had ravaged the cotton crop

1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.50: Race riots were numerous. White workers were hostile toward the migrant who had been hired to break strikes, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.50: Race riots were numerous. White workers were hostile toward the migrant who had been hired to break strikes

1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.57: The female workers were the last to arrive north, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.57: The female workers were the last to arrive north

1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.21: Families arrived at the station very early. They did not wish to miss their trains north, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.21: Families arrived at the station very early. They did not wish to miss their trains north

1940 – 1941
The Family, Charles Alston

The Family

Charles Alston, 1955
School Studies, Horace Pippin

School Studies

Horace Pippin, 1944
Elijah the Prophet, Nicholas Roerich

Elijah the Prophet

Nicholas Roerich, 1931
Migration Series No.45: The migrants arrived in Pittsburgh, one of the great industrial centers of the North, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.45: The migrants arrived in Pittsburgh, one of the great industrial centers of the North

1940 – 1941
Allegro, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis

Allegro

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, 1909
Poem Object, André Breton

Poem Object

André Breton, 1941
Woman in an Armchair, Pablo Picasso

Woman in an Armchair

Pablo Picasso, 1941
Girl with a rose, Lê Phổ

Girl with a rose

Lê Phổ, 1941

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