Mar 21, 2013 - Sale 2308

Sale 2308 - Lot 173

Price Realized: $ 450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(ART.) LAWRENCE, JACOB. The "And the migrants kept coming. . ." Series of 26 color illustrations from his 60 panel "exodus" series, printed here for the first time on seven pages in Fortune Magazine for November, 1941. Large, thick 4to, original pictorial wrappers. An excellent copy. New York, 1941

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Fortune was the first mainstream magazine to feature an African American artist's work. First exhibited at New York's Downtown Gallery and almost simultaneously appearing in the pages of Fortune, Lawrence's series literally put him on the map