Jacob Lawrence | The Migration of the Negro, panel no.
3 | 1940 – 1941 |Image and original data provided by The Museum of Modern Art. ©
2008 Estate of Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New
York . ARTstor.
In celebration of Black History Month, one of our
subscription resources, ARTstor, located on our website under the tab,
Reference Shelf, has developed partnerships with various art museums and collections
to provide access to art by and depicting African Americans.
ARTstor’s partnership with Museum of Modern Art and the
Phillips Gallery includes Jacob Lawrence’s complete series on the migration of
many African Americans from the rural South to the urban North in the United
States. To see the full series with 139 images in ARTstor,
simply search Jacob Lawrence Migration.
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| Milton Rogovin (right) from Loc.gov |
Other special partnership collection offers 260 images
from the Milton Rogovin: Social Documentary Photographs collection. http://library.artstor.org/library/collection/rogovin_milton
Milton Rogovin began his first photographic series in 1958
to document African-American storefront churches in Buffalo, NY, and would go
on to photograph the working people and ethnic communities. Rogovin would
continue his photography career with his work appearing in more than 160
journals, magazines, and other collections.
Other upcoming artwork to appear in ARTstor in honor of
Black History Month includes:
- 1000 images of paintings and collage materials by Romare Bearden.
- Artwork by artists of the African Diaspora produced after 1940 from the Mott-Warsh Collection that includes Jacob Lawrence, Ron Adams, Faith Ringold, Richard Yarde, and more.
To learn more about using ARTstor to explore African
American studies, look at this subject guide in handout format by ARTstor http://www.artstor.org/using-artstor/u-pdf/sg_african-american.pdf
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