This photo provided by the Museum of Modern Art shows a panel of The Great Migration series by African-American artist Jacob Lawrence titled Another of the social causes of the migrants ...

s 17 members are ... by Black artist Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000), best known for depicting the daily lives of African ...

bold visual art and vivid theatricality The migration is based on Jacob Lawrence’s famous series of paintings from the early 1940’s. It features music by Nina Simone and John Coltrane. The November ...

Jacob Lawrence was a pioneer. His “Migration” series, painted when he was 23, was the first work by a black American artist to be purchased by the Museum of Modern Art; his career stretched ...