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Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist

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Archibald J. Motley Jr., The Octoroon Girl, 1925. Oil on canvas.
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Archibald J. Motley Jr., The Octoroon Girl, 1925. Oil on canvas.

Courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art

Explore the works of Archibald Motley, artist of African American life during the Jazz Age, with this companion website to an NEH-funded retrospective of Motley's art at Duke University's Nasher Museum of Art.

 

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