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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.
Dubbed "The Man Who Paints with the Pencil" and "Master of Pencil Acrobatics" [5] Sanford is known to have painted for many famous people including Roberta Flack and Billie Holiday. "For him, color is a means for distinguishing images that overlap and combine," the late artist and former Chicago Sun-Times art critic Harold Haydon said in 1974 ...
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 ...
In the following list, the painter's name is followed by the number of their paintings in the collection, with a link to all of their works available on the Artic website. For artists with more than one type of work in the collection, or for works by artists not listed here, see the Artic website or the corresponding Wikimedia Commons category ...
During the Bronzeville Renaissance period, Chicago hosted many of the nation's leading Black artists, writers, and performers. After long efforts, in the late 1930s, workers organized across racial lines to form the United Meatpacking Workers of America.
Chicago's black arts movement came to rival the vibrancy seen in New York's Harlem Renaissance, and Sebree benefited from connections with artists such as Margaret Taylor-Burroughs and Eldzier Cortor, as well as the network of support created through affiliations with such institutions as the South Side Community Arts Center and the Art Institute.
Renaissance art largely excluded Black people, even as it emerged during the early phases of the transatlantic slave trade which ultimately brought 10.7 million African men, women and children to ...
Susan Cayton Woodson (October 18, 1918 – January 31, 2013) was an American art collector and activist. [1] A central figure in the Chicago Black Renaissance, she was critical in promoting and collecting works by black artists, such as William McBride, Eldzier Cortor, and Charles White.