Jacob Lawrence
21 Nov 2007 - 06 Jan 2008
Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series, Panel 1, 1940
Casein tempera on hardboard, 12 x 18 in.. © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Casein tempera on hardboard, 12 x 18 in.. © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series:
Selections from The Phillips Collection, Moves from Studio Museum to Whitney
November 21, 2007 - January 6, 2008
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the exhibition Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series: Selections from The Phillips Collection, which was scheduled to open last week at The Studio Museum in Harlem, has been moved to the Whitney Museum of American Art, where it will be on view from November 21, 2007, through January 6, 2008.
The show is being installed in the Lipman Gallery on the 5th floor mezzanine. The Whitney is located at 945 Madison Avenue, at 75th Street. For further information, please go to whitney.org or call 1-800-WHITNEY. For information on current and upcoming exhibitions and programs at The Studio Museum, go to studiomuseum.org or call 212-864-4500.
Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) is one of the most prominent and revered American artists of the 20th century. This exhibition includes seventeen panels from Lawrence’s renowned sixty-panel Migration Series, portraying the flight of more than six million African Americans from the impoverished communities in the rural South to the industrial cities of the North. The panels depict themes of migration including movement, family, labor, segregation, struggle, and hope. An American epic told through vivid patterns and colors, the Migration Series is a masterpiece of narrative painting, the first work produced on this subject. Capturing racial ruptures of the day, Lawrence chronicles the quest of people in search of greater economic and social justice.
Following its installation at the Whitney, the exhibition will travel to the Mississippi Museum of Art and will reunite with the remaining thirteen panels at The Phillips Collection for a culminating exhibition.
Selections from The Phillips Collection, Moves from Studio Museum to Whitney
November 21, 2007 - January 6, 2008
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the exhibition Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series: Selections from The Phillips Collection, which was scheduled to open last week at The Studio Museum in Harlem, has been moved to the Whitney Museum of American Art, where it will be on view from November 21, 2007, through January 6, 2008.
The show is being installed in the Lipman Gallery on the 5th floor mezzanine. The Whitney is located at 945 Madison Avenue, at 75th Street. For further information, please go to whitney.org or call 1-800-WHITNEY. For information on current and upcoming exhibitions and programs at The Studio Museum, go to studiomuseum.org or call 212-864-4500.
Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) is one of the most prominent and revered American artists of the 20th century. This exhibition includes seventeen panels from Lawrence’s renowned sixty-panel Migration Series, portraying the flight of more than six million African Americans from the impoverished communities in the rural South to the industrial cities of the North. The panels depict themes of migration including movement, family, labor, segregation, struggle, and hope. An American epic told through vivid patterns and colors, the Migration Series is a masterpiece of narrative painting, the first work produced on this subject. Capturing racial ruptures of the day, Lawrence chronicles the quest of people in search of greater economic and social justice.
Following its installation at the Whitney, the exhibition will travel to the Mississippi Museum of Art and will reunite with the remaining thirteen panels at The Phillips Collection for a culminating exhibition.