Les 100 peintures les plus célèbres de Jacob Lawrence, une sélection de la galerie

11Sermon sur la Création de la Genèse VIII : Et la Création fut achevée et tout était bien1989 · Musée d'art SCAD 12Migration Series No.39 : Les quais de gare étaient croulants sous les bagages1941 · The Phillips Collection 13Sermon sur la Création de la Genèse I : Au commencement tout était vide1989 · Musée d'art SCAD 14Sermon sur la Création de la Genèse VI : Et Dieu créa tous les animaux de la terre1989 · Musée d'art SCAD 15Sermon sur la Création de la Genèse VII : Et Dieu créa l'homme et la femme1989 · Musée d'art SCAD 16Migration Series No.23 : L'expansion de la migration1941 · The Phillips Collection 17Migration Series No.31 : Les migrants ont trouvé un logement amélioré en arrivant au nord1941 · The Phillips Collection 18Série de la Migration n°37 : De nombreux migrants ont trouvé du travail dans l'industrie sidérurgique1941 · The Phillips Collection 19Migration Series No.59 : Dans le Nord, ils avaient la liberté de voter1941 · The Phillips Collection 20The Migration Series, Panneau n° 13 : Les récoltes ont été laissées à sécher et à pourrir. Il n'y avait personne pour s'en occuper.The Phillips Collection 21Sermon de la Création de la Genèse III : Et Dieu dit1989 · Musée d'art SCAD 22The Migration Series, Panel no. 57: Les travailleuses furent les dernières à arriver au nord.The Phillips Collection 23The Migration Series, Panneau n° 43 : Dans quelques régions du Sud, des dirigeants des communautés noires et blanches se sont réunis pour discuter des moyens de faire du Sud un endroit agréable où vivre.The Phillips Collection 24Le Jeu de Cartes1953 · Musée d'art SCAD 25Le Mariage1948 · Art Institute of Chicago 26Migration Series No.49: They found discrimination in the North. It was a different kind1941 27Migration Series No.45: The migrants arrived in Pittsburgh, one of the great industrial centers of the North1941 28Migration Series No.43: In a few sections of the South leaders of both Black and White communities met to discuss ways of making the South a good place to live1941 29Migration Series No.35: They left the South in great numbers. They arrived in the North in great numbers1941 30Migration Series No.33: Letters from relatives in the North told of the better life there1941 31Migration Series No.29: The labor agent recruited unsuspecting laborers as strike breakers for northern industries1941 32Migration Series No.28: The labor agent sent south by northern industry was a familiar presence in the Black communities1941 33Migration Series No.17: Tenant farmers received harsh treatment at the hands of the planter1941 34Migration Series No.14: For African Americans there was no justice in the southern courts1941 35Painting the Bilges1944 36Watchmaker1946 37Cabinet Makers1946 38Sedation1950 39Vaudeville1951 40...if we fail, let us fail like men, and expire together in one common strugge... -Henry Clay, 18131956 41The Cue and the Ball1956 42Pool1954 43Street Shadows1959 44Through Forest, Through Rivers, Up Mountains1967 45Série Struggle - No. 10 : Washington traversant le Delaware1954 · Metropolitan Museum of Art 46...is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the prices of chains and slavery? Patrick Henry-17751955 47The Migration Series, Panel no. 53: African American, long-time residents of northern cities met the migrants with aloofness and disdain.The Phillips Collection 48The Migration Series, Panel no. 27: Many men stayed behind until they could take their families north with them.The Phillips Collection 49The Migration Series, Panel no. 21: Families arrived at the station very early. They did not wish to miss their trains north.The Phillips Collection 50Frederick Douglass listened to William Lloyd Garrison denounce slavery 51Race riots were very numerous all over the North because of the antagonism that was caused between the Negro and white workers 52Migration Series No.58: In the North the African American had more educational opportunities1941 53Migration Series No.55: The migrants, having moved suddenly into a crowded and unhealthy environment, soon contracted tuberculosis. The death rate rose1941 54Migration Series No.54: For the migrants, the church was the center of life1941 55Migration Series No.53: African Americans, long-time residents of northern cities, met the migrants with aloofness and disdain1941 56Migration Series No.51: African Americans seeking to find better housing attempted to move into new areas. This resulted in the bombing of their new homes1941 57Migration Series No.47: As the migrant population grew, good housing became scarce. Workers were forced to live in overcrowded and dilapidated tenement houses1941 58Migration Series No.46: Industries boarded their workers in unhealthy quarters. Labor camps were numerous1941 59Migration Series No.44: But living conditions were better in the North1941 60Migration Series No.42: To make it difficult for the migrants to leave, they were arrested en masse. They often missed their trains1941 61Migration Series No.41: The South was desperate to keep its cheap labor. Northern labor agents were jailed or forced to operate in secrecy1941 62Migration Series No.30: In every southern home people met to decide whether or not to go north1941 63Migration Series No.27: Many men stayed behind until they could take their families north with them1941 64Migration Series No.25: They left their homes. Soon some communities were left almost empty1941 65Migration Series No.22: Migrants left. They did not feel safe. It was not wise to be found on the streets late at night. They were arrested on the slightest provocation1941 66Migration Series No.21: Families arrived at the station very early. They did not wish to miss their trains north1941 67Migration Series No.19: There had always been discrimination1941 · The Phillips Collection 68Migration Series No.15: There were lynchings1941 · The Phillips Collection 69Migration Series No.13: The crops were left to dry and rot. There was no one to tend them1941 70Migration Series No.9: They left because the boll weevil had ravaged the cotton crop1941 · The Phillips Collection 71Migration Series No.7: The migrant, whose life had been rural and nurtured by the earth, was now moving to urban life dependent on industrial machinery1941 72Migration Series No.5: Migrants were advanced passage on the railroads, paid for by northern industry. Northern industry was to be repaid by the migrants out of their future wages1941 73Migration Series No.3: From every southern town migrants left by the hundreds to travel north1941 74Migration Series No.1: During World War I there was a great migration north by southern African Americans1941 75Bar and Grill1941 · Smithsonian American Art Museum 76Harriet Tubman Series (Panel -4)1940 · Hampton University Museum 77When It Is Warm the Parks Are Filled with People1943 78This is Harlem1943 79Captain Skinner1944 80War Series: Shipping Out1947 · Whitney Museum of American Art 81War Series: Prayer1947 · Whitney Museum of American Art 82African Gold Miners1946 83Defeat1954 84I alarmed almost every house till I got to Lexington-Paul Revere1954 85Trappers1956 86Victory and Defeat1955 87We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility1955 88...for freedom we want and will have, for we have served this cruel land long enuff... -a Georgia slave, 18101956 89I cannot speak sufficiently in praise of the firmness and deliberation with which my whole line received their approach... -Andrew Jackson, New Orleans, 18151956 90Untitled (D2X9VM)1955 91Thousands of American citizens have been torn from their country and from everying dear to them: they have been dragged on board ships of ward of a foreign nation. -Madison, 1 June 18121956 92120.9.14.286.9.33-ton 290.9.27 be at 153.9.28.110.8.17.255.9.29 evening 178.9.8... -an informer's coded message1955 93Listen, Father! The Americans have not yet defeated us by land; neither are we sure they have done so by water--we therefore wish to remain here and fight our enemy... Tecumseh to the British, Tippecanoe, 18111956 94Fulton and Nostrand1958 · Cleveland Museum of Art 95Fruits and Vegetables1959 · Cincinnati Art Museum 96The Visitors1959 · Dallas Museum of Art 97Magic Man1958 98Parade1960 99Pool Parlor1942 100Firewood 551942