The Migration Series
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The Migration Series is a celebrated sequence of paintings by Jacob Lawrence that vividly chronicles the mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North in the early 20th century.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
modern art work
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painting series ⓘ |
| artForm | painting ⓘ |
| colorPalette | limited flat colors ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | no formal commission ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1941 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | Jacob Lawrence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depicts |
African Americans moving from the rural South to the urban North
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labor conditions in the early 20th century United States ⓘ racial segregation in the American South ⓘ urban life in Northern United States cities ⓘ |
| endTime | 1941 ⓘ |
| firstExhibited | Downtown Gallery, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstExhibitedInYear | 1941 ⓘ |
| genre |
history painting
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narrative art ⓘ |
| hasCaptionText | narrative captions written by Jacob Lawrence ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Panel 1 of The Migration Series
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Panel 2 of The Migration Series ⓘ Panel 3 of The Migration Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1940 ⓘ |
| inCollection |
Museum of Modern Art
NERFINISHED
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Phillips Collection NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
later African American narrative painters
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museum exhibitions on the Great Migration ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Great Migration of African Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English captions ⓘ |
| locationOfCreation | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
African American history
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Great Migration NERFINISHED ⓘ internal migration in the United States ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
hardboard
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tempera ⓘ |
| movement |
Harlem Renaissance
NERFINISHED
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Social Realism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
comprehensive visual narrative of the Great Migration
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focus on African American experience in the United States ⓘ use of sequential storytelling in painting ⓘ |
| numberOfPanels | 60 ⓘ |
| numberOfWorks | 60 ⓘ |
| ownershipSplit |
even-numbered panels at Museum of Modern Art
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odd-numbered panels at Phillips Collection ⓘ |
| publisher | Downtown Gallery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| significantEventDepicted |
Jim Crow laws in the South
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Northern industrial employment ⓘ World War I labor demand in the North ⓘ lynching and racial violence ⓘ |
| startTime | 1940 ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted |
World War I era
NERFINISHED
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early 20th century ⓘ interwar period ⓘ |
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