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Migration Series No.38: They also worked on the railroads

Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.38: They also worked on the railroads, Jacob Lawrence
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30.5 cmMigration Series No.38: They also worked on the railroads scale comparison45.7 cm

Migration Series No.38: They also worked on the railroads 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.38: They also worked on the railroads in the Kaleidoscope

Migration Series No.10: They were very poor, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.10: They were very poor

1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.23: The migration spread, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.23: The migration spread

1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.24: Their children were forced to work in the fields. They could not go to school, Jacob Lawrence

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

1940 – 1941
Defiance, from The Emperor Jones series, Aaron Douglas

Defiance, from The Emperor Jones series

Aaron Douglas, 1926
Migration Series No.25: They left their homes. Soon some communities were left almost empty, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.25: They left their homes. Soon some communities were left almost empty

1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.30: In every southern home people met to decide whether or not to go north, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.30: In every southern home people met to decide whether or not to go north

1940 – 1941
Tidings of the Eagle, Nicholas Roerich

Tidings of the Eagle

Nicholas Roerich, 1927
Migration Series No.13: The crops were left to dry and rot. There was no one to tend them, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.13: The crops were left to dry and rot. There was no one to tend them

1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.32: The railroad stations in the South were crowded with northbound travelers, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.32: The railroad stations in the South were crowded with northbound travelers

1940 – 1941
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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