ニューヨーク近代美術館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (ニューヨーク近代美術館Instagram)「For several decades, beginning during World War I, millions of Black Americans left the southern United States for the north, midwest, and west—a mass exodus known as the Great Migration. A child of migrants, Jacob Lawrence grew up in Harlem, where he set out from an early age to make art that addressed Black histories. “This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind,” Lawrence stated. In 1940 he embarked on the Migration Series: 60 paintings featuring bold colors, pared-down forms, and narrative captions. A peer of Lawrence’s, Elizabeth Catlett went to the 1941 premiere of the Migration Series at New York’s Downtown Gallery and was inspired by what she saw. Six years later, she completed The Black Woman, a series of prints that chronicles the oppression and resilience of subjects such as field laborers, domestic workers, historic abolitionists, and civil rights activists. Narrative captions written in the first person relate Catlett’s experience to that of the women she depicts. → See Gallery 520: Jacob Lawrence and Elizabeth Catlett, a new Collection Exhibition opening tomorrow at UNIQLO NYC Nights. → To celebrate the opening of this gallery, we’ve assembled a rich group of features on both Lawrence and Catlett, from podcasts to videos to walking tours to audio for kids. Explore them all on #MoMAMagazine, link in bio. — [1] Jacob Lawrence. “The migrants arrived in great numbers (panel 40 of 60).” 1940–41. Gift of Mrs. David M. Levy. © 2023 Jacob Lawrence / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York [2] Elizabeth Catlett. “There Are Bars between Me and the Rest of the Land from the series The Black Woman.” 1946, printed 1989. Acquired through the generosity of Erin and Peter Hess Friedland, and Modern Women's Fund. © 2023 Elizabeth Catlett / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York」4月7日 0時41分