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Vaudeville, 1951,Jacob Lawrence

https://www.wikiart.org/en/jacob-lawrence/vaudeville-1951

In every home people who had not gone North met and tried to decide if they should go North or not, Jacob Lawrence, 1940-41,MoMA: Painting and Sculpture

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/78533

Living conditions were better in the North, Jacob Lawrence, 1940-41,MoMA: Painting and Sculpture

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/78541

Games - Sleight of Hand, 1999,Jacob Lawrence

The World War had caused a great shortage in Northern industry and also citizens of foreign countries were returning home, Jacob Lawrence, 1940-41,MoMA: Painting and Sculpture

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/78526

War Series: Victory, 1947,Jacob Lawrence

To Preserve Their Freedom (From the Toussaint L'Ouverture Series), 1988,Jacob Lawrence

The Photographer, 1942,Jacob Lawrence

https://www.wikiart.org/en/jacob-lawrence/the-photographer-1942

Tombstones, 1942,Jacob Lawrence

https://www.wikiart.org/en/jacob-lawrence/tombstones-1942

Workshop (Builders #1), 1972,Jacob Lawrence

The Opener from the series The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture, Jacob Lawrence, 1997,MoMA: Drawings and Prints

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/91563

Self-portrait, 1977,Jacob Lawrence

The Swearing In No. 1, 1977,Jacob Lawrence

Vaudeville, 1951,Jacob Lawrence

https://www.wikiart.org/en/jacob-lawrence/vaudeville-1951

War Series: Beachhead, 1947,Jacob Lawrence

They also worked in large numbers on the railroad, Jacob Lawrence, 1940-41,MoMA: Painting and Sculpture

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/78537

The Shoemaker, 1945,Jacob Lawrence

https://www.wikiart.org/en/jacob-lawrence/the-shoemaker-1945

Child labor and a lack of education was one of the other reasons for people wishing to leave their homes, Jacob Lawrence, 1940-41,MoMA: Painting and Sculpture

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/78530

Funeral Sermon, Jacob Lawrence, 1946,Brooklyn Museum: American Art

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/61169

Harlem Street Scene, Jacob Lawrence, 1975,Brooklyn Museum: Contemporary Art

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/116613

The Library, 1960,Jacob Lawrence

https://www.wikiart.org/en/jacob-lawrence/the-library-1960

Taboo, 1963,Jacob Lawrence

In the North the Negro had better educational facilities, Jacob Lawrence, 1940-41,MoMA: Painting and Sculpture

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/78548

The Studio, 1977,Jacob Lawrence

https://www.wikiart.org/en/jacob-lawrence/the-studio-1977

The Builders, Jacob Lawrence, 1974,Brooklyn Museum: Contemporary Art

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/111228

Among one of the last groups to leave the South was the Negro professional who was forced to follow his clientele to make a living, Jacob Lawrence, 1940-41,MoMA: Painting and Sculpture

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/78547

In many of the communities the Negro press was read continually because of its attitude and its encouragement of the movement, Jacob Lawrence, 1940-41,MoMA: Painting and Sculpture

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/78528

The migrants arrived in great numbers, Jacob Lawrence, 1940-41,MoMA: Painting and Sculpture

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/78539

The March from the series The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture, Jacob Lawrence, 1995,MoMA: Drawings and Prints

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/91562

No. 2, Main Control Panel, Nerve Center of Ship, 1944,Jacob Lawrence

jacob-lawrence:

Bar and Grill, 1941,Jacob Lawrence

In 1982, Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) was commissioned to make eight paintings to accompany John Hersey’s devastating book Hiroshima first published in 1946 shortly after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city. The paintingsare at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, but the Limited Editions Club book, which has eight original silkscreens printed in eleven colors, signed by Hersey and Lawrence (and Robert Penn Warren who wrote a poem for this edition), is in our special collections.