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Text by Elizabeth Alexander, Rita Dove, Nikky Finney, Terrance Hayes, Tyehimba Jess, Yusef Komunyakaa, Patricia Spears Jones, Natasha Trethewey, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Crystal Williams, Kevin Young.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLawrence's landmark series on African American migration in context\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just 23 years old, made a series of 60 small tempera paintings on the Great Migration, the decades-long mass movement of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North that began in 1915–16. The child of migrant parents, Lawrence worked partly from his own experience and partly from long research in his neighborhood library. The result was an epic narrative of the collective history of his people. Moving from scenes of terror and violence to images of great intimacy, and drawing on film, photography, political cartoons and other sources in popular culture, Lawrence created an innovative format of sequential panels, each image accompanied by a descriptive caption. Within months of its completion, the series entered the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Phillips Memorial Gallery (today The Phillips Collection), Washington, DC, each institution acquiring 30 panels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Migration Series\u003c\/em\u003e is now a landmark in the history of modern art. \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJacob Lawrence: The Migration Series\u003c\/em\u003e, now in paperback, grounds Lawrence’s work in the cultural and political debates that shaped his art and demonstrates its relevance for artists and writers today. 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This groundbreaking volume examines her paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and graphic illustrations together with archival ephemera. It traces Sánchez’s artistic journey from her early years in Cuba through her travels in Europe and residence in New York in the 1960s to her move to Puerto Rico, where she still lives and works. 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For the first time, this volume examines in detail Renoir’s subjects and working methods through the deconstruction of this painting, now one of the jewels of The Phillips Collection, in Washington D.C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRenoir and Friends\u003c\/em\u003e explores Renoir’s masterpiece, analysing elements of the painting itself, photographs, and contextual works by Renoir and fellow artists including Gustave Caillebotte, Edgar Degas, Léon Bonnat, and Édouard Manet. Essays by leading scholars draw out information about the subjects, including collector Charles Ephrussi and Renoir’s future wife Aline Charigot. They discuss what the inclusion of these characters in the painting tells us about Renoir’s working practice and look at how the artist created a painting with universal appeal whilst remaining convincingly specific. 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