Willard Motley
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Willard Francis Motley 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
Portrait of Motley by Carl Van Vechten, 1947.
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
Willard Motley
…His grandmother Mary ("Mae") was a homemaker. Motley graduated from Lewis-Champlain grammar school, and Englewood High School. He and the noted artist Archibald Motley Jr. were raised as brothers, although Archibald was in fact Willard's uncle; Willard's mother, Florence (known as "Flossie") moved to New York City after…
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