Artists Associated with Chicago

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The Terra's collection contains works of art by several individuals who had close professional ties to Chicago, whether by maintaining a studio in the area, belonging to local artists' organizations, or sending work to local exhibitions such as the annual Artists of Chicago and Vicinity at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Archibald J. Motley, Jr.

Date: 1935

Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Art Acquisition Endowment Fund

Object number: 2009.1

Text Entries: Greenhouse, Wendy, and Jontyle Theresa Robinson. The Art of Archibald J. Motley, Jr. (exh. cat., Chicago Historical Society). Chicago: Chicago Historical Society, 1991. Text p. 107; ill. p. 107, no. 35 (color). Mooney, Amy M. Archibald Motley, Jr. The David C. Driskell Series of African American Art: Volume IV. San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2004. Text pp. 99, 101; ill p. 100, pl. 45 (color). Baldwin, Davarian L. Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, The Great Migration, and Black Urban Life. Chapel Hill NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. Text p. 42. Schlabach, Elizabeth Schroeder. Along the Streets of Bronzeville: Black Chicago’s Literary Landscape. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2013. Text p. 13. Powell, Richard J., ed. Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist (exh. cat., Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University). Durham, NC: Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, 2014. Text p. 159 (checklist); ill. p. 16, cat. no. 26 (color), p. 159 (checklist). Wallace, Caroline. “Exhibiting Authenticity: The Black Emergency Cultural Coalition’s Protests of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1968–71.” Art Journal 74, no. 2 (Summer 2015): 5–23. Ill. p. 13 (color). Soutif, Daniel. The Color Line: Les Artistes Africains-Américains et la Ségrégation 1865–2016. (exh. cat. Musée du quai Branly). Paris: Flammiron, 2016. ill. p. 117 (color). Halasz, Piri. <a href="http://observer.com/2016/01/meet-the-harlem-renaissance-artist-who-captured-the-era-of-le-jazz-hot/" target="_blank">“Meet the Harlem Renaissance Artist Who Captured the Era of ‘Le Jazz Hot.’”</a>. Observer (January 11, 2016). Accessed January 12, 2017. Text. Bourguignon, Katherine M., and Peter John Brownlee, eds. Conversations with the Collection: A Terra Foundation Collection Handbook. Chicago: Terra Foundation for American Art, 2018. Text pp. 214, 215; ill. p. 214, detail pp. 215–216 (color). Piccoli, Valéria, Fernanda Pitta, and Taylor Poulin. Pelas ruas: vida moderna e experiências urbanas na arte dos Estados Unidos, 1893-1976. (exh. cat., Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo and Terra Foundation for American Art). São Paulo, Brazil: Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, 2022. Pl. p. 99 (color).