Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series

$35.00 at Seattle Art Museum.

At just 23 years of age, in 1941, Jacob Lawrence made a series of sixty small tempera paintings on the Great Migration, the decades-long mass movement of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North that began in 1915-16. The child of migrant parents, Lawrence worked partly from his own experience and partly from long research in his neighborhood library. The result was an epic narrative of the collective history of his people. Within months of its completion, the series entered the collections of…