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Collection item 2006.001.0001

Ellsworth Kelly

Untitled (EK 927) (2005)

Collection item 2018.021.0001

Angela Bulloch

Heavy Metal Stack: Fat Cyan Three (2018)

A painting of a large crowd of people at a train station heading to Chicago, New York, and St. Louis

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 1: During World War I there was a great migration north by southern African Americans. (between 1940 and 1941)

Three high rise apartments, one grey, one dark brown and one rust colored with many colors of windows.

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 31: The migrants found improved housing when they arrived north. (between 1940 and 1941)

Collection item 1637

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Luncheon of the Boating Party (between 1880 and 1881)

Collection item 2011.006.0001

Morris Louis

Seal (1959)

Collection item 2012.001.0001

Leo Villareal

Scramble (2011)

A steam locamotive travels through the dark with the bell ringing.

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel 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 wages. (between 1940 and 1941)

Vertical rows of abstract green plants alternatitng with rows of orange and red stripes.

Jacob Lawrence

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. (between 1940 and 1941)

Five cotton plants with boll weevills eating them.

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 9: They left because the boll weevil had ravaged the cotton crop. (between 1940 and 1941)

A mother slices food for her child, who is peering over the table watching her.

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 11: Food had doubled in price because of the war. (between 1940 and 1941)

A person sits alone, bent over in sadness. A single branch reaching across the image with a noose.

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 15: There were lynchings. (between 1940 and 1941)

A white woman drinks from a water fountain on one side of the river. On the otherside a black woman and her child drink from a separate fountain.

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 19: There had always been discrimination. (between 1940 and 1941)

Five people wait at a train station with their belongings. Two stand, while three sit.

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 21: Families arrived at the station very early. They did not wish to miss their trains north. (between 1940 and 1941)

An empty room with the window covered by a green curtain.

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 25: They left their homes. Soon some communities were left almost empty. (between 1940 and 1941)

Collection Highlights

Collection Highlights Images
Colorful designs with black background, artwork
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Collection Highlights Recent Acquisitions
Collection Highlights The Migration Series
Collection Highlights The Rothko Room
Collection Highlights Luncheon of the Boating Party
Collection Highlights The Wax Room
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