Archibald Motley : jazz age modernist
(Book)

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist organized by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, and curated by Richard J. Powell."

Exhibition held at: Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Jan. 30-May 11, 2014; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, June 14-Sept. 7, 2014; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Oct. 19, 2014-Feb. 1, 2015; Chicago Cultural Center, March 6-Aug. 31, 2015; Whitney Museum of American Art, Fall 2015.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-170).

Featuring more than 140 colour illustrations, this catalogue accompanies the first full-scale survey in 20 years of the work of Archibald John Motley, Jr. (1891-1981), a master colourist and radical interpreter of urban culture. Motley's brilliant yet idiosyncratic paintings - simultaneously expressionist and social realist - have captured worldwide attention with their rainbow-hued, syncopated compositions. The catalogue includes the artist's depictions of African American life in early-twentieth-century Chicago, as well as his portraits and archetypes, portrayals of African American life in Jazz Age Paris, and renderings of 1950s Mexico.