Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series - Paperback Katie sturino and representation so characteristic of

and representation so characteristic of Johns's career over the last sixty years

Long underrecognized

Published in 1945

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The high-density pigments provide rich and long-lasting colors and tonalities

Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series - Paperback Katie sturino and representation so characteristic ofEdited by Leah Dickerman and Elsa Smithgall. With contributions by Elizabeth Alexander, Rita Dove, Nikky Finney, Terrance Hayes, Tyehimba Jess, Yusef Komunyakka, Jodi Roberts, Patricia Spears Jones, Natasha Trethewey, Lyrae Van Clief Stefanon, Crystal Williams, and Kevin Young. In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just twenty three years old, made a series of sixty small tempera paintings on the Great Migration, the decades long mass movement of black