Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist

Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist


  • Oct 19, 2014–Feb 1, 2015
  • BCAM, Level 3: Nathanson Gallery

The painter's voice, humor, and observations

Richard J. Powell, Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University and curator of this exhibition, describes and contextualizes Archibald Motley's distinct voice in portraying Chicago's burgeoning African-American culture around the 1930s.