The Migration Series, Panel no. 7: The migrant, whose life had been rural and nurtured by the earth, was now moving to urban life dependent on industrial machinery.

Jacob Lawrence ( between 1940 and 1941 )

Location House (1600) - Display, East Parlor
Period Twentieth-Century
Materials Casein tempera on hardboard

Object Number 1155
Dimensions 18 x 12 in.; 45.72 x 30.48 cm.
Credit Line Acquired 1942; © 2022 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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