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Collection item 0851

El Greco

The Repentant St. Peter (1600 - 1605 or later)

Collection item 0869

Philip Guston

The Lesson (1975)

Collection item 0939

Lois Mailou Jones

Coin de la Rue Medard, Paris (1947)

Collection item 0950

Jacob Kainen

Only in Darkness (1955)

Collection item 0956

Wassily Kandinsky

Autumn II (1912)

Collection item 1054

Jennie Lea Knight

Bluescape (1950)

Collection item 1107

Roger de La Fresnaye

Emblems (1913)

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)

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)

The sun beats down on a field of dead crops.

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 13: The crops were left to dry and rot. There was no one to tend them. (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)

Two black tenant farmers bring crops to be weighed to a white foreman.

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 17: Tenant farmers received harsh treatment at the hands of planters. (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)

A group of people boarding train cars.

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 23: The migration spread. (between 1940 and 1941)

Collection Highlights

Collection Highlights Images
Collage of figures on abstract green and yellow patterned background with ornate gold frame
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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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