Person · 1917–2000
Jacob Lawrence
The painter whose 60-panel "Migration Series" turned the Great Migration into one of the masterpieces of American art.
A master of [[black-visual-art]].
Working in bold, flat color, Jacob Lawrence told Black history in series — the lives of Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, and above all the Great Migration of Black Southerners to the North. He became one of the most celebrated American artists of the century.
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Connections to other moments, systems, and investigations — the links rarely drawn together.
- part of·ThreadThe Harlem Renaissance
Lawrence came of age in Harlem and turned the Great Migration into epic visual art.