at the time, dove deep into the works of Jacob Lawrence, the mid-century painter and chronicler of the Great Migration. Half of the “Migration Series” — a wrenching sequence of 60 paintings ...

Victory and Defeat, Panel 13 from "Struggle: From the History of the American People," 1954-56, by Jacob Lawrence ... tempera panels—his “Migration Series” is still considered one of ...

Capturing the essence of the Great Migration – the movement of African Americans from the rural South to the industrial North following the outbreak of World War I, artist Jacob Lawrence brin ...

A long-running theme of U.S. black history (a panel from Jacob Lawrence's 1940-41 "Migration Series") may have to be revised. © Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence ...

A series of paintings tells of the northward flow of African Americans in the years after WW I. Somber pieces, illuminated here and there with... Jacob Lawrence, Author, Jacob Lawrence ...

Jacob Lawrence was an important African-American painter known for his portrayals of black culture in the early 20th century. Consisting of 60 panels of sensitively colored figurative paintings, the ...

How painter Jacob Lawrence reframed early American history with ‘Struggle’ Amid the McCarthy hearings and the launch of the civil rights movement in the 1950s, painter Jacob Lawrence ...