Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series [Paperback]

Jacob Lawrence (Author), Lonnie G. Bunch (Author), Elizabeth Hutton Turner (Author, Editor), Phillips Collection (Corporate Author)

Book Description

Series: The Migration Series | Publication Date: September 1994

This volume reproduces Lawrences epic, sixty-panel series of paintings depicting the postWorld War I migration of African Americans from the rural South to the industrial North. A major contribution to African-American history, the book features essays by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Lonnie G. Bunch III, Spencer R. Crew, Deborah Willis, Diane Tepfer, and other distinguished scholars and historians.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

YA-Full-color, full-page reprints of the 60 dramatic paintings of Lawrence's "Migration Series" fill half the pages of this catalog for the traveling exhibition. The text includes essays by various historians who relate the series to the time period and supply critical material about the painter's work. Quotations from Lawrence himself are particularly meaningful. Excellent black-and-white reproductions illustrate the historical and cultural part of the book and include a portrait of the artist. Beautifully printed and illustrated, the book will be useful for art classes or YAs interested in black history.
Linda Sudduth, W.T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 172 pages
• Publisher: Counterpoint (September 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0963612913
• ISBN-13: 978-0963612915
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 10 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #599,293 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)