Archibald J. Motley Jr.(1stEdition) (The David C. Driskell Series of African American Art, V. 4) by AmyM. Mooney, Archibald John Motley Hardcover, 116 Pages, Published 2004 by Pomegranate ISBN-13: 978-0-7649-2886-4, ISBN: 0-7649-2886-4
"Archibald J. Motley Jr. (1891–1981) devoted his prodigious and critically acclaimed career to portraying African Americans seriously rather than as caricatures, hoping that honest African American art would become accepted and a subsequent synthesis would occur, creating an American art form appreciated by all, regardless of racial identity. Drawing on the artist’s paintings and eloquent writings; recently unearthed taped interviews; u ..."
"Dr. Walter O. Evans first purchased a portfolio of prints by Jacob Lawrence in the late 1970s. Now, more than 20 years after acquiring his first piece of fine art, Dr. Evans owns a phenomenal collection that ranges from choice works by the expatriate artists Mary Edmonia Lewis and Henry Ossawa Tanner to noteworthy pieces by the celebrated innovators Charles White, Richard Hunt, and Archibald J. Motley, Jr. "The Evans Collection" also co ..."
"The west side of Chicago is not the poorest, the oldest, the largest, or the most African American of African American communities in the United States--it is similar to every other swath of poverty in every single city. We are led to believe that these communities are in crisis when something occurs that lands them on the front page. The real crisis, however, is ongoing and it's one of acceptance of the conditions of poverty, day in an ..."
"Archibald Motley (1891-1981) was one of the most important figures associated with the Harlem Renaissance and is best known as both a master colorist and a radical interpreter of urban culture. Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist is the first full-scale survey of his paintings in two decades. The exhibition offers an unprecedented opportunity to carefully examine Motley's dynamic depictions of modern life in his home town, Chicago, as ..."