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Archibald John Motley, Jr. (October 7, 1891 – January 16, 1981), [1] was an American visual artist. Motley is most famous for his colorful chronicling of the African-American experience in Chicago during the 1920s and 1930s, and is considered one of the major contributors to the Harlem Renaissance, or the New Negro Movement, a time in which African-American art reached new heights not just ...
e. Archibald Motley painting Blues (1929) The Chicago Black Renaissance (also known as the Black Chicago Renaissance) was a creative movement that blossomed out of the Chicago Black Belt on the city's South Side and spanned the 1930s and 1940s before a transformation in art and culture took place in the mid-1950s through the turn of the century.
Black Abstractionism is a term that refers to a modern arts movement that celebrates Black artists of African-American and African ancestry, whether as direct descendants of Africa or of a combined mixed race heritage, who create work that is not representational, presenting the viewer with abstract expression, imagery, and ideas.
I am very sensitive to being a white woman in charge of the art legacy of a very important black artist." [3] The Archibald J. Motley, Jr. papers and photographs collection was gifted to the Chicago History Museum by Browne in 2013. [6] [3] In the early 1980s, Browne served as an archivist at Loyola University Chicago where she remained for ...
Archibald Motley (uncle) Willard Francis Motley (July 14, 1909 – March 4, 1965) was an American author. Beginning as a teenager, Motley published a column in the African-American oriented Chicago Defender newspaper under the pen-name Bud Billiken. He worked as a freelance writer, and later founded and published the Hull House Magazine and ...
The South Side Community Art Center is a community art center in Chicago that opened in 1940 with support from the Works Progress Administration 's Federal Art Project in Illinois. [ 1 ] Opened in Bronzeville in an 1893 mansion, it became the first black art museum in the United States [ 2 ] and has been an important center for the development ...
Judging a scene he is painting (early 1930s). Palmer C. Hayden (born Peyton Cole Hedgeman; January 15, 1890 – February 18, 1973) was an American painter who depicted African-American life, landscapes, seascapes, and African influences. He sketched, painted in both oils and watercolors, and was a prolific artist of his era.
African-American art is a broad term describing visual art created by African Americans. The range of art they have created, and are continuing to create, over more than two centuries is as varied as the artists themselves. [1] Some have drawn on cultural traditions in Africa, and other parts of the world where the Black diaspora is found, for ...