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Location: Phillips Collection

Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party - detail — Renoir depicts his friends in a chaotic scene—showing an increased interest in the three-dimensionality of figures.

Auguste Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party

by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker

Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series, 1940-41, 60 panels, tempera on hardboard (even numbers at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, odd numbers at the Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.) — Lawrence carefully documents the migration of African Americans from the agricultural South to the industrial North.

Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series

by Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris