Archibald John Motley Jr.: Jazz Age Portraits of Classic American Style
African Americans, of course, are not a monolithic group. Archibald John Motley Jr., a Jazz Age modernist considered one of the major contributors to the Harlem Renaissance, visually chronicled the diverse and nuanced Black experience in the early decades of the 20th century. He sought to dispel the pervasive racial stereotypes of the time by depicting Blacks in stylized genre scenes of everyday life.
