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dc.coverage.temporalcreation date: 1940-1941en_US
dc.creatorLawrence, Jacoben_US
dc.date1940-1941en_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-08T14:32:03Z
dc.date.available2009-06-08T14:32:03Z
dc.date.issued1940-1941en_US
dc.identifier104435en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/39836en_US
dc.descriptionJacob 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.descriptionfull viewen_US
dc.format.extent45.72 x 30.48 cm (18 x 12 inches)en_US
dc.format.mediumgessoen_US
dc.format.mediumhardboarden_US
dc.format.mediumtemperaen_US
dc.relation.ispartof134484en_US
dc.rights©The Museum of Modern Art, New Yorken_US
dc.subjectSocial realismen_US
dc.subjectRural-urban migrationen_US
dc.subjectPainting, American --20th centuryen_US
dc.subjectRace relationsen_US
dc.subjectAfrican Americans in arten_US
dc.titleNo. 18, The migration gained in momentumen_US
dc.typeImageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcodeMOMA-P1852en_US
dc.publisher.institutionRepository: Museum of Modern Art (New York, New York, United States) ID: 28.1942.9en_US
vra.culturalContextAfrican Americanen_US
vra.culturalContextAmericanen_US
vra.techniquepainting (image-making)en_US
vra.worktypePaintingen_US
dc.contributor.displaypainter: Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917-2000)en_US


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