Self-Portrait

1. Archibald J. Motley, Jr.; to his sister, Mrs. Flossie Motley, Chicago; to her daughter, Charlotte C. Duplessis, Chicago, by Oct. 1991 [Robinson 1991]; Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, Chicago; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1995.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Chicago Historical Society, <em>The Art of Archibald J. Motley, Jr.</em>, Oct. 23, 1991–Mar. 17, 1992, cat. 6; NY, Studio Museum of Harlem, Apr. 5–June 10, 1992; Atlanta, GA, High Museum, June 29–Sept. 25, 1992; Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Oct. 10, 1992–Jan. 3, 1993.
• Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/8231/in-their-own-right-images-of-african-americans"><em>In Their Own Right: Images of African Americans</em></a>, Sept. 27, 1997–Jan. 19, 1998.
• Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, <em>On Process: Studio Themes</em>, Jan. 12–Mar. 4, 2001, no cat.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Kraft Education Center, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/93/faces-places-inner-spaces"><em>Faces, Places, Inner Spaces</em></a>, Jun. 14, 2006–Jul. 8, 2007, cat.
• Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/1567/they-seek-a-city-chicago-and-the-art-of-migration-1910-1950"><em>They Seek a City: Chicago and the Art of Migration, 1910–1950</em></a>, Mar. 3–June 3, 2013, cat. 24.
• Durham, NC, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, <em>Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist</em>, Jan. 30–June 1, 2014; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of Art, June 14–Sept. 7, 2014; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Oct. 19, 2014–Feb. 1, 2015; Chicago Cultural Center, Mar. 6–Aug. 31, 2015; Whitney Museum of American Art, Oct. 2, 2015–Jan. 17, 2016 (Chicago only), no cat.
• Shanghai Museum, <em>Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945</em>, Sept. 28, 2018–Jan. 6, 2019, cat. 35.
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, <em>The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism</em>, Feb. 25–July 28, 2024, cat. 42.

• Jontyle Theresa Robinson and Wendy Greenhouse, <em>The Art of Archibald J. Motley, Jr.</em>, exh. cat. (Chicago Historical Society, 1991), 72, cat. 6 (ill.).
• Art Institute of Chicago Department of Museum Education, <em>Many Faces: Modern Portraits and Identities</em> (1997), cover ill., 24 (ill.), 25, 42 (ill.).
• Amy M. Mooney, “Representing Race: Disjunctures in the Work of Archibald J. Motley, Jr.,” <em>Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies</em> 24, 2 (1999): 162–179, fig. 1.
• Andrea D. Barnwell and Kirsten P. Buick, “A Portfolio of Works by African American Artists Continuing the Dialogue: A Work in Progress,” <em>Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies</em> 24, 2 (1999): 185.
• Amy Mooney, <em>Archibald J. Motley Jr.</em> (Pomegranate, 2004), 4–11, pl. 1 (ill.).
• Jean Sousa, <em>Faces, Places, Inner Spaces</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2006).
• Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), cat. 145.
• Sarah Kelly Oehler, <em>They Seek a City: Chicago and the Art of Migration</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2013), 36–38, cat. 24 (ill.).
• Yang Zhigang, ed., <em>Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945</em>, exh. cat. (Shanghai Book and Painting Press, 2018), cat. 35.
• Jordan Carter and Sarah Kelly Oehler, "Black Art Matters to This Prominent Museum," interview by Wendy Altschuler, <em>Forbes</em>, June 8, 2020, <a href="https://forbes.com/sites/wendyaltschuler/2020/06/08/black-art-matters-to-this-prominent-museum"> https://forbes.com/sites/wendyaltschuler/2020/06/08/black-art-matters-to-this-prominent-museum</a> (ill.).
• Denise Murrell et al., <em>The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism</em>, exh. cat. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2024), 188, cat. 42 (ill.).

Nightlife

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Mrs. John Nicholson (Hannah Duncan) and John Nicholson, Jr.

Art Institute of Chicago

Rose Bowl

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Tall Case Clock

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago Duet

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Shelf Clock

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Icarus

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Portrait of John McLure Hamilton

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