Chicago – Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist https://archives.nasher.duke.edu/motley Tue, 26 May 2015 20:33:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 LOOKING FOR ARCHIBALD MOTLEY: BRONZEVILLE, CHICAGO https://archives.nasher.duke.edu/motley/2013/11/15/thoughts/ Fri, 15 Nov 2013 11:51:39 +0000 https://visia.themes.pixelentity.com/?p=64 CHICAGO: If you want to know more about Archibald Motley, you will want to know about Bronzeville.

Great American modernist painter Archibald Motley loved to walk the streets of Bronzeville, a once-thriving neighborhood in Chicago’s South Side. There, he would …

]]> Looking for Archibald Motley: The Art Institute https://archives.nasher.duke.edu/motley/2013/11/15/images/ Fri, 15 Nov 2013 10:44:27 +0000 https://visia.themes.pixelentity.com/?p=75 The great American modernist painter lived and worked here in the first half of the 20th century. What inspired Motley? How did he leave his mark? We wanted to get to know Motley better, in anticipation of the first …]]> South Side Community Art Center https://archives.nasher.duke.edu/motley/2013/11/14/south-side-community-art-center/ Thu, 14 Nov 2013 15:48:38 +0000 https://archives.nasher.duke.edu/motley/?p=565 The South Side Community Art Center opened in December, 1940, with a show of well-known local painters and sculptors: Henry Avery, William Carter, Charles White, Archibald Motley, Jr., Joseph Kersey, Margaret and Bernard Goss, William McBride, among others. Eleanor Roosevelt …

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