A Moving Story

Picturing Migration and Immigration in

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century

American Art

Wendy Greenhouse, PhD

Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851

Thomas Hovenden, Breaking Home Ties, 1890

Norman Rockwell, Breaking Home Ties, 1954

William S. Jewett, The Promised Land--The Grayson Family, 1850

George Caleb Bingham, The County Election, 1852

George Henry Hall, A Dead Rabbit (Study of the Nude or Study of an Irishman), 1858 Irishman), 1858

“A ‘Dead Rabbit,’ “ 1857

De Scott Evans, The Irish Question,

circa 1880s

Eastman Johnson, A Ride for Liberty--The Fugitive Slaves, circa 1862

Lily Martin Spencer, The Home of the Red, White and Blue, circa 1867-68

Horace Bonham, Nearing the Issue at the Cockpit, 1878

Thomas Nast, “Every Dog (No Distinction of Color) Has His

Day,” 1879

Charles Frederic Ulrich, In the Land of Promise, Castle Garden, 1884

New York--Welcome to the land of freedom, 1887

Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage, 1907

Jewish women immigrants examined at Ellis Island, circa 1911

F. Victor Gillam, The Immigrant—Is He an Acquisition or a Detriment to Me?, 1903

Jacob Riis, Italian Mother and Baby, Ragpicker, New York, circa 1889-90

Remember Your First Thrill of American Liberty, 1917

Still image and poster from Charlie Chaplin’s short film The Immigrant, 1917

Abastenia St. Leger Eberle, Avenue A (The Dance of the Ghetto Children, circa 1914

Girl Skating, 1906

George Bellows, Paddy Flanagan, 1908

Robert Vonnoh, Companion of the Studio, 1888

George Luks, Street Scene (Hester Street), 1905

William Glackens, Far from the Fresh Air Farm,

1911

Ralf Christian Henricksen, Americanization of Immigrants, 1940

Ida Abelman, My Father Reminisces, 1937

Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Casey and Mae in the Street, 1948

Dorothea Lange, migrant family on road, 1936

Lange, Destitute Peapickers in California , known as Migrant Mother, 1936

Dorothea Lange, Members of the Mochida family awaiting evacuation bus, 1942

Henry Sugimoto, When Can We Go Home? 1943

Joseph Rodríguez, Puerto Rican Flag, 1986

Jamie Wyeth, Kalounna in Frogtown, 1986

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