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LAWRENCE, JACOB.
And the
Migrants kept Coming. . .
26 color
illustrations from his 60-panel “Exodus”
series, printed here on 7 pages, in Fortune
Magazine for November, 1941 * [with]
In
the Heart of the Black Belt.
Three
color illustrations on two pages of
Fortune Magazine for August, 1948. Both
volumes large folio, with original wrap-
pers; light wear.
New York, 1941; 1948
[400/600]
Jacob Lawrence was the first African American
painter to be featured in a mainstream white
magazine. Fortune’s 1941 feature story, not
only served to introduce its upscale white sub-
scribers to an African American artist, but also
revisited a piece of very important black history.
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