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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.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Known for: Painting; visual art: Notable work: The Contribution of the Negro to American Democracy: Movement: New Negro Movement (Chicago Black Renaissance) Spouse(s) Elizabeth Catlett (m. 1941-1946; divorced) Frances Barrett (m. 1950-1979; his death) [1]
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 ...
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 .
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.
Margaret Walker (Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander by marriage; July 7, 1915 – November 30, 1998) was an American poet and writer. She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance.
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 ...
William Edouard Scott (March 11, 1884 – May 15, 1964) was an African-American artist. Before Alain Locke asked African Americans to create and portray the New Negro that would thrust them into the future, artists like William Edouard Scott were depicting blacks in new ways to break away from the subjugating images of the past.