1941 caption: "During the World War there was a great migration North by Southern Negros."
1993 caption: "During World War I there was a great migration north by southern African Americans."
The Migration Series, originally titled The Migration of the Negro, is a group of paintings by African-American painter Jacob Lawrence which depicts the migration of African Americans to the northern United States from the South that began in the 1910s.[1][2] It was published in 1941 and funded by the WPA.
Lawrence conceived of the series as a single work rather than individual paintings and worked on all of the paintings at the same time, in order to give them a unified feel and to keep the colors uniform between panels.[3] He wrote sentence-long captions for each of the sixty paintings explaining aspects of the event. Viewed in its entirety, the series creates a narrative in images and words that tells the story of the Great Migration.
- ^ "Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series: Removing the Mask". EDSITEment. Retrieved 2014-06-29.
- ^ "The Migration Series". The Phillips Collection. Retrieved 2014-06-29.
- ^ Elizabeth Steele (2000). "The Materials and Techniques of Jacob Lawrence". In Nesbett, Peter T.; DuBois, Michelle (eds.). Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press. p. 250.