Study for Aspects of Negro Life: The Negro in an African Setting

1. Sold by Galerie Americana, Chicago, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1990.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• The Art Institute of Chicago, "New Acquisitions: Early American Modernist Painting," June 25-November 25, 1990, no cat.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Century of Collecting: African American Art in The Art Institute of Chicago," February 15-May 18, 2003, no cat.
• Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS: "Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist," to be shown at the Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, from September 8-December 2, 2007.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, "Critical Fabulation", October 10, 2025 - January 4, 2026.

• Amy M. Mooney, “Representing Race: Disjunctures in the Work of Archibald J. Motley, Jr.,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 24: 2 (1999), p. 172.
• Andrea D. Barnwell and Kirsten P. Buick, “A Portfolio of Works by African American Artists Continuing the Dialogue: A Work in Progress,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 24: 2 (1999), pp. 186, 192-93, cat. 4.
• Cherise Smith, “Fragmented Documents Works by Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems, and Willie Robert Middlebrook at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 24:2 (1999), p. 248.
• Susan Earle et al, “Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist,” The Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence 2007, p 164, pl. 67Judith A. Barter et al., "American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat.

Variable Piece #70 (In Process): 166A

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