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Migration Series No.36: Migrants arrived in Chicago, the gateway to the West

Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941

Migration Series No.36: Migrants arrived in Chicago, the gateway to the West, Jacob Lawrence

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30.5 cm

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45.7 cm

Migration Series No.36: Migrants arrived in Chicago, the gateway to the West 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. Source See Migration Series No.36: Migrants arrived in Chicago, the gateway to the West in the Kaleidoscope

Migration Series No.27: Many men stayed behind until they could take their families north with them, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.27: Many men stayed behind until they could take their families north with them

Migration Series No.54: For the migrants, the church was the center of life, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.54: For the migrants, the church was the center of life

Migration Series No.60: And the migrants kept coming, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.60: And the migrants kept coming

Migration Series No.47: As the migrant population grew, good housing became scarce. Workers were forced to live in overcrowded and dilapidated tenement houses, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.47: As the migrant population grew, good housing became scarce. Workers were forced to live in overcrowded and dilapidated tenement houses

Migration Series No.55: The migrants, having moved suddenly into a crowded and unhealthy environment, soon contracted tuberculosis. The death rate rose, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.55: The migrants, having moved suddenly into a crowded and unhealthy environment, soon contracted tuberculosis. The death rate rose

Blind Singer, William H. Johnson

Blind Singer

William H. Johnson, 1940

Migration Series No.48: Housing was a serious problem, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.48: Housing was a serious problem

Migration Series No.49: They found discrimination in the North. It was a different kind, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.49: They found discrimination in the North. It was a different kind

Allegorical Composition, Pavel Tchelitchew

Allegorical Composition

Pavel Tchelitchew, 1936 – 1937

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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