Leaving So Soon but You Just Arrived: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series: Selections from The Phillips Collection at The Whitney

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

Originally slated to be shown at The Studio Museum of Harlem, Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series: Selection from the Phillips Collection, was reassigned to The Whitney Museum of American Art and will be leaving on Sunday, January 6, 2008. Please allot time to go and view this spectacular array of works that depicts the migration of Southern blacks to the industrious and opportunist Northern cities. With use of lush, bold colors and geometric patterns, the Migration Series is sure to narrate and touch on every theme that blacks were dealing with at that time. I will viewing as well as reviewing the works before departure and sure to be pleasantly stimulated by this great American painter. Please look for a full review next week.

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