Tag: Archibald John Motley Jr.

  • Chicago’s Jazz Age still lives in Archibald Motley’s art The Chicago Tribune 2015-03-20 Howard Reich Where does Chicago’s Jazz Age still live? In the paintings of Archibald Motley, on view in a new exhibition Trumpets blared, saxophones thundered, singers belted and dancers swayed from nighttime to past sunup. Walk along “the Stroll” — a very…

  • Archibald J. Motley, Jr.’s Paintings: Modern Art Shaped by Precision, Candor, and Soul Hyperallergic: Sensitive to Art & its Discontents 2014-03-09 Edward M. Gómez A week ago, 12 Years A Slave won the Academy Award for Best Picture, the first time in the history of the Oscars that the top prize went to a film…

  • Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University 2001 Campus Drive Durham, North Carolina 27705 On view 2014-01-30 through 2014-05-11 ABOUT Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist, the first retrospective of the American artist’s paintings in two decades, will originate at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University on January 30,…