Jacob Lawrence

Artist Information
Lifetime: 1917-2000 Nationality: American

Checker Players
Date: 1947
Period:
Museum: Worcester Art Museum
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Confrontation at the Bridge
Date: 1975
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Cleveland Museum of Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Creative Therapy
Date: 1949
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Cleveland Museum of Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Daybreak -- A Time to Rest
Date: 1967
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: National Gallery of Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Funeral Sermon
Date: before 1948
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Brooklyn Museum of Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Harlem Street Scene
Date: 1975
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Brooklyn Museum of Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Men at War
Date: 1947
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Butler Institute of American Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Number 02: The World War had caused a great shortage in Northern industry and also citizens of foreign countries were returning home.
Date: 1940 - 1941
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Number 04: The Negro was the largest source of labor to be found after all others had been exhausted.
Date: 1940 - 1941
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Number 06: And the migrants kept coming.
Date: 1940 - 1941
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Number 08: They did not always leave because they were promised work in the North. Many of them left because of Southern conditions, one of them being great floods that ruined the crops.
Date: 1940 - 1941
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Number 10: They were very poor.
Date: 1940 - 1941
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Number 12: The railroad stations were at times so overpacked with people leaving that special guards had to be called to keep order.
Date: 1940 - 1941
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Number 14: Among the social conditions that existed which was partly the cause of the migration was the injustice done to the Negroes in the courts.
Date: 1940 - 1941
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Number 16: Although the Negro was used to lynching, he found this an opportune time for him to leave where one had occured.
Date: 1940 - 1941
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Number 18: The migration gained in momentum.
Date: 1940 - 1941
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Number 20: In many of the communities the Negro press was read continually because of its attitude and its encouragement of the movement.
Date: 1940-1941
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Number 22: Another of the social causes of the migrants' leaving was that at times they did not feel safe, or it was not the best thing to be found on the streets late at night...
Date: 1940 - 1941
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Number 24: Child labor and a lack of education was one of the other reasons for people wishing to leave their homes.
Date: 1940-1941
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Number 26: And people all over the South began to discuss this great movement.
Date: 1940 - 1941
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Number 28: The labor agent who had been sent south by northern industry was a very familiar person in the Negro counties.
Date: 1940 - 1941
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Number 30: In every home people who had not gone North met and tried to decide if they should go North or not.
Date: 1940 - 1941
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Number 32: The railroad stations in the South were crowded with people leaving for the North.
Date: 1940 - 1941
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Number 34: The Negro press was also influential in urging the people to leave the South.
Date: 1940 - 1941
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Number 36: In Chicago and other cities they labored in the steel mills
Date: 1940 - 1941
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Number 38: They also worked in large numbers on the railroad.
Date: 1940 - 1941
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Number 40: The migrants arrived in great numbers.
Date: 1940-1941
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Number 42: Sometimes the [labor] agents disguised themselves to avoid arrest, but the migrants were often taken from railroad stations and jailed until the trains departed
Date: 1940 - 1941
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Number 44: Living conditions in the North were better.
Date: 1940 - 1941
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Number 46: Industries attempted to board their labor in quarters that were oftentimes very unhealthy. Labor camps were numerous.
Date: 1940 - 1941
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Number 48: Housing for the Negroes was a very difficult problem.
Date: 1940 - 1941
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Number 50: Race riots were very numerous all over the North because of the antagonism that was caused between the Negro and white workers.
Date: 1940 - 1941
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Number 52: One of the largest race riots occured in East Saint Louis.
Date: 1940 - 1941
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Number 54: One of the main forms of social and recreational activities in which migrants indulged occured in the church.
Date: 1940 - 1941
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Number 56: Among the last groups to leave the South ws the Negro professional who was forced to follow his clientele to make a living.
Date: 1940 - 1941
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Number 58: In the North the Negro had better education facilities.
Date: 1940 - 1941
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Number 60: The trains were packed continually with migrants.
Date: 1940 - 1941
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
Self-Portrait
Date: 1965
Period:
Museum: Butler Institute of American Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
The 20's -- Migrants Cast Their Ballots
Date: ca. 1976
Period:
Museum: Brooklyn Museum of Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1
The Builders
Date: 1974
Period: Twentieth century
Museum: Brooklyn Museum of Art
Vendor: Davis Art Images
# of Views: 1