archibald motley

Jacob Lawrence, Harriet Tubman Series (Panel #4), 1940. Tempera on hardboard, unknown dimensions, Hampton University Museum, Hampton, Virginia.
A Look into the Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance was an artistic and political movement that redefined Blackness in the United States as an act of liberation from post-antebellum discrimination and stereotypes,…

Archibald J. Motley, Jr. (American, 1891–1981), Black Belt, 1934. Oil on canvas
The Met’s Harlem Renaissance Show Is Outstandingly Joyful
The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism, The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s blockbuster exhibition, defines the Black cultural movement as a contemporary force.