COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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ArtArtHiAAH~7~7
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0001810
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aahi0001810
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Work Title (display):
Number 08: They did not always leave because they were promised work in the North. Many of them left because of Southern conditions, one of them being great floods that ruined the crops.
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
1940 - 1941
Work Dates type:
creation
Work Creator (display):
Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917-2000)
Work Creator gender:
male
work_creator_or_agent_gender
male
Work Creator gender
false
Work Creator notes (display):
Painter whose work was the first by an African-American to be in the collection of MOMA in New York. His bright, colorful, genre painters became associated with the Harlem Renaissance of the 1930s and 1940s.
Work Style Period:
Harlem Renaissance
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Harlem Renaissance
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false
Work Style Period:
African American
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African American
Work Style Period
false
Work Style Period:
20th century
work_styleperiod
20th century
Work Style Period
false
Work Style Period:
social realism
work_styleperiod
social realism
Work Style Period
false
Work Subject:
freedom
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freedom
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
oppression
subject
oppression
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
floods
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floods
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
despair
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despair
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
hope
subject
hope
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
rural-urban migration
subject
rural-urban migration
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
Southern States
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Southern States
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
racism
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racism
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
history (discipline)
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history (discipline)
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
African Americans
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African Americans
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
agriculture
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agriculture
Work Subject
false
Work Worktype:
paintings (visual works)
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paintings (visual works)
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false
Work Category (VRC classification):
paintings
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paintings
Work Category (VRC classification)
false
Work Material and Technique (display):
tempera on composition board
Work Measurements (display):
46 cm (H) x 31 cm (W)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
repository
Work Location (Repository or Site) refid:
28.1942.4
Work Location (Repository or Site) refid type:
accession
Work Location (Geographic) name:
New York, New York
Image Rights (display):
© Museum of Modern Art, New York. Licensed for educational use via Scholars Resource: Davis Art Images
Work Rights (display):
© Jacob Lawrence
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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