dc.coverage.temporal | creation date: 1940-1941 | en_US |
dc.creator | Lawrence, Jacob | en_US |
dc.date | 1940-1941 | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-06-08T14:32:03Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-06-08T14:32:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1940-1941 | en_US |
dc.identifier | 104435 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/39836 | en_US |
dc.description | Jacob 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.description | full view | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 45.72 x 30.48 cm (18 x 12 inches) | en_US |
dc.format.medium | gesso | en_US |
dc.format.medium | hardboard | en_US |
dc.format.medium | tempera | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | 134484 | en_US |
dc.rights | ©The Museum of Modern Art, New York | en_US |
dc.subject | Social realism | en_US |
dc.subject | Rural-urban migration | en_US |
dc.subject | Painting, American --20th century | en_US |
dc.subject | Race relations | en_US |
dc.subject | African Americans in art | en_US |
dc.title | No. 18, The migration gained in momentum | en_US |
dc.type | Image | en_US |
dc.rights.access | Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only | en_US |
dc.identifier.vendorcode | MOMA-P1852 | en_US |
dc.publisher.institution | Repository: Museum of Modern Art (New York, New York, United States) ID: 28.1942.9 | en_US |
vra.culturalContext | African American | en_US |
vra.culturalContext | American | en_US |
vra.technique | painting (image-making) | en_US |
vra.worktype | Painting | en_US |
dc.contributor.display | painter: Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917-2000) | en_US |