Gallery Talk: Barkley Hendricks on Archibald Motley
Fri, Oct 23, 2015
5 pm
Archibald J. Motley Jr. (b. 1891–1981), Self-Portrait (Myself at Work), 1933. Oil on canvas, 57.125 × 45.25 in. (145.1 × 114.9 cm). Collection of Mara Motley, MD, and Valerie Gerrard Browne. Image courtesy the Chicago History Museum, Chicago, Illinois © Valerie Gerrard Browne
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Barkley Hendricks is a painter and photographer best known for his monumental portraits of people of color living in urban areas. On the occasion of Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist, join Hendricks as he explores Motley’s sympathetic portraits, daring visual language, and lasting influence on contemporary artists.
Free with Museum admission.
