Look closely at Walter Ellison’s Train Station (1935) to learn about an important chapter in Chicago’s history, the Great Migration, and get new ideas for your own creativity.
Walter Ellison
Born in Eatonton, Georgia, Walter Ellison migrated to Chicago in the 1920s. He was one of six million Black Americans who left the American South from 1916–1970 in a moment we now call the Great Migration. In his painting Train Station (1935), Ellison captures a scene from that time.
