Archibald Motley
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Archibald John Motley Jr., was an American visual artist. Motley is most famous for his colorful chronicling of the African-American experience in Chicago during the 1920s through 1940s, and is consid
Self Portrait (1920)
Archibald Motley, Self-Portrait
NARA black-and-white photograph of "Getting Religion" painting by Motley (original painting in color)
Nightlife (1943), oil on canvas
Eldzier Cortor
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Eldzier Cortor was an American artist and printmaker. His work typically features elongated nude figures in intimate settings, influenced by both traditional African art and European surrealism. He is
Archibald Motley
…take it. And he made me very, very angry. Motley spent the majority of his life in Chicago, where he was a contemporary of fellow Chicago artists Eldzier Cortor and Gus Nall. He lived in a predominantly white neighborhood, and attended majority-white primary and secondary schools. He graduated from Englewood…
Cortor in 1959