Category:Archibald Motley

**Archibald Motley**
	African American artist (1891-1981)
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Date of birth	7 October 1891; New Orleans (Louisiana)
Date of death	16 January 1981; Chicago (Illinois)
Place of burial	Mount Olivet Cemetery;
Country of citizenship	United States of America;
Educated at	School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Englewood Technical Prep Academy;
Occupation	painter;
Field of work	art of painting;
Movement	Harlem Renaissance;
Child	Archie Motley;
Award received	Guggenheim Fellowship (1929); William E. Harmon Foundation award for distinguished achievement among Negroes;
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Archibald John Motley, Junior (October 7, 1891, New Orleans, Louisiana – January 16, 1981, Chicago, Illinois) was an African-American painter. He studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago during the 1910s, graduating in 1918. He is most famous for his colorful chronicling of the African-American experience during the 1920s and 1930s, and is considered one of the major contributors to the Harlem Renaissance, or the New Negro Movement, a time in which African American art reached new heights not just in New York but across America. He specialized in portraiture and saw it “as a means of affirming racial respect and race pride.”