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Exhibition Checklist Exhibition Checklist One Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North The Museum of Modern Art, New York, April 03, 2015 - September 07, 2015 WILLIAM ATTAWAY CHARLES ALSTON (American, 1907–1977) Blood on the Forge 1941 Cover: 7 7/8 × 5" (20 × 12.7 cm) Leon F. Litwack JAMES WELDON JOHNSON The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man 1912 Cover: 8 1/4 × 6" (21 × 15.2 cm) Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University. NELLA LARSEN Quicksand 1928 Book Cover: 7 7/8 × 5" (20 × 12.7 cm) Leon F. Litwack ALAIN LOCKE WINOLD REISS The New Negro: An Interpretation 1925 book 9 1/16 × 6 1/8" (23 × 15.5 cm) Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations 3/30/2015 One Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North CLAUDE MCKAY AARON DOUGLAS Home to Harlem 1928 Book Cover: 7 7/8 × 5" (20 × 12.7 cm) Leon F. Litwack JEAN TOOMER Cane 1923 Cover: 7 7/8 × 5" (20 × 12.7 cm) Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University. RICHARD WRIGHT Uncle Tom's Children 1938 Book Cover: 8 1/4 × 5" (21 × 12.7 cm) Leon F. Litwack RICHARD WRIGHT Native Son 1940 Book Cover: 8 1/4 × 5" (21 × 12.7 cm) Leon F. Litwack RICHARD WRIGHT Black Boy 1945 Book Cover: 8 11/16 × 5" (22 × 12.7 cm) Leon F. Litwack 3/30/2015 One Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North ASSOCIATED PRESS "Mob Foiled in Attempted Lynching" 1934 Gelatin silver print 6 1/2 x 8 3/8" (16.5 x 21.3 cm) The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The New York Times Collection LOU BERNSTEIN (American, 1911–2005) Father and Children on Blanket 1943 Gelatin silver print Image: 18 × 22" (45.7 × 55.9 cm) Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio: Photo League Collection, Museum Purchase with funds provided by Elizabeth M. Ross, the Derby Fund, John S. and Catherine Chapin Kobacker, and the Friends of the Photo League MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE (American, 1904–1971) At the Time of the Louisville Flood 1937 Gelatin silver print 9 3/4 x 13 1/8" (24.7 x 33.4 cm) The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the photographer LOUISE DAHL-WOLFE (American, 1895–1989) Nashville 1932 Gelatin silver print 12 15/16 x 9 1/8" (32.8 x 23.2 cm) The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the photographer JACK DELANO (American, born Russia. 1914–1997) Group of Florida migrants on their way to Cranberry, New Jersey, to pick potatoes. Near Shawboro, North Carolina July 1940 Gelatin silver print 7 3/16 x 9 1/2" (18.3 x 24.2 cm) The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase 3/30/2015 One Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North JACK DELANO (American, born Russia. 1914–1997) Hands of Mr. Henry Brooks, ex-slave. Parks Ferry Road, Greene County, Georgia May 1941 Gelatin silver print 10 11/16 × 13 3/4" (27.2 × 34.9 cm) The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase ROSALIE GWATHMEY Untitled (Kids Playing in Rural South) c. 1940 Gelatin silver print Image: 7 5/16 × 9 5/8" (18.6 × 24.4 cm) The Jewish Museum, New York Purchase: The Paul Strand Trust for the benefit of Virginia Stevens Gift, 2008-65 INTERNATIONAL NEWS PHOTOS INC. Howard Univeristy students picket the National Crime Conference in Washington, D.C., Dec., 1934 when the leaders of the conference refused to discuss lynching as a national crime Untitled (Howard University students picket the National Crime Conference in Washington, D. C.) 1934 photographic print Sheet: 6 5/8 × 8 1/2" (16.8 × 21.6 cm) Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington D.C. DOROTHEA LANGE (American, 1895–1965) Plantation Overseer and his Field Hands, Mississippi Delta 1936 Gelatin silver print 15 1/16 x 17 15/16" (38.3 x 45.7 cm) The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase DOROTHEA LANGE (American, 1895–1965) On the Road to Los Angeles, California 1937 Gelatin silver print 8 1/16 x 7 3/4" (20.4 x 19.7cm) The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the Farm Security Administration 3/30/2015 One Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North DOROTHEA LANGE (American, 1895–1965) Ex-Slave with Long Memory, Alabama 1937 Gelatin silver print 15 3/16 x 11 15/16" (38.5 x 30.3cm) The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase RUSSELL LEE (American, 1903–1986) Store Front Church, Chicago April 1941 Gelatin silver print 7 3/16 × 9 1/2" (18.2 × 24.2 cm) The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase RUSSELL LEE (American, 1903–1986) Apartment houses and funeral parlor in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois April 1941 Gelatin silver print 7 × 9 7/16" (17.8 × 23.9 cm) The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase HELEN LEVITT (American, 1913–2009) New York 1938 Gelatin silver print 6 5/16 x 8 13/16" (16.1 x 22.4 cm) The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase JACK MANNING (American, 1920–2001) Elks Parade, Harlem 1939 Gelatin silver print Image: 10 1/16 × 13" (25.6 × 33 cm) The Jewish Museum, New York Purchase: Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, 2008-95 3/30/2015 One Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North ROBERT H. MCNEILL (American, 1918–2005) Make a Wish from the series The Bronx Slave Market 1937 Gelatin silver print 6 3/4 × 8 11/16" (17.1 × 22 cm) The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the generosity of The Friends of Education of The Museum of Modern Art and Committee on Photography Fund ROBERT H. MCNEILL (American, 1918–2005) Untitled from the series The Bronx Slave Market 1937 Gelatin silver print 7 5/8 × 9 1/2" (19.4 × 24.1 cm) The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the generosity of The Friends of Education of The Museum of Modern Art and Committee on Photography Fund ROBERT H. MCNEILL (American, 1918–2005) Untitled from the series The Negro in Virginia 1938 Gelatin silver print 7 5/8 × 9 7/16" (19.3 × 24 cm) The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the generosity of The Friends of Education of The Museum of Modern Art and Committee on Photography Fund NAACP Untitled (A Man Was Lynched Today flag) Flag, announcing lynching, flown from the window of the NAACP headquarters on 69 Fifth Ave., New York City 1936 Photographic print Image: 3 × 4" (7.6 × 10.2 cm) Sheet: 3 1/2 × 4 9/16" (8.9 × 11.6 cm) Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington D.C. MARYNN OLDER AUSUBEL (American, 1912–1980) On the Porch ca. 1940 Gelatin silver print Image: 8 7/8 × 7 1/4" (22.5 × 18.4 cm) Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio: Photo League Collection, Museum Purchase with funds provided by Elizabeth M. Ross, the Derby Fund, John S. and Catherine Chapin Kobacker, and the Friends of the Photo League 3/30/2015 One Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North GORDON PARKS (American, 1912–2006) Children with Doll, Washington, D.C. 1942 Gelatin silver print 11 1/8 × 13 15/16" (28.3 × 35.4 cm) The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the generosity of the Gordon Parks Foundation and Committee on Photography Fund GORDON PARKS (American, 1912–2006) Bedroom Wall (Woman in her bedroom, Southwest section, Washington, DC) 1942 Gelatin silver print Image: 14 × 11" (35.6 × 27.9 cm) Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations GORDON PARKS (American, 1912–2006) Harlem Newsboy, Harlem, New York 1943 Gelatin silver print 14 1/8 × 14" (35.9 × 35.6 cm) The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the generosity of The Friends of Education of The Museum of Modern Art and Committee on Photography Fund IRVING PENN (American, 1917–2009) Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence, New York 1947 Gelatin silver print 18 1/4 x 14 15/16" (46.4 x 37.9 cm) The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of The Condé Nast Publications, Inc. SOL PROM (SOLOMON FABRICANT) Untitled (Dancing School) 1938 Gelatin silver print Image: 9 7/8 × 7 7/8" (25.1 × 20 cm) The Jewish Museum, New York Purchase: Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, 2008-105 3/30/2015 One Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North BEN SHAHN (American, born Lithuania. 1898–1969) Cotton pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas October 1935 Gelatin silver print 7 13/16 × 9 13/16" (19.9 × 25 cm) The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase BEN SHAHN (American, born Lithuania. 1898–1969) Medicine show, Huntingdon, Tennessee October 1935 Gelatin silver print 6 5/16 × 9 7/16" (16 × 24 cm) The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase BEN SHAHN (American, born Lithuania. 1898–1969) Picking cotton, Pulaski County, Arkansas October 1935 Gelatin silver print 7 5/8 × 9 13/16" (19.4 × 25 cm) The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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