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DiaporamaPortrait of My Grandmother
1922
111.0 x 75.0 cm
archibald john motley jr. (1891 – 1981)
Archibald Motley Jr. (1891-1981): Harlem Renaissance artist famed for vibrant depictions of African American life in Chicago. Explore his Jazz Age scenes & modernist style.
Shown from the knees up, a woman with brown, wrinkled skin, wearing a white blouse, apron, and black skirt is shown in front of a pale gray background in this vertical portrait painting. Straight-backed, she faces and looks at us with her hands resting in her lap. Her wavy, iron-gray hair is parted in the center and pulled back from her face. Her eyebrows are slightly raised, and her face is deeply lined down her cheeks and around her mouth. She wears a heart-shaped brooch with a red stone at its center at her neck and a gold band on her left ring finger. The light coming from our left casts a shadow against the wall to our right. The artist signed and dated the painting in the lower right corner: “A.J. MOTLEY. JR. 1922.”
About this artwork
- Title: Portrait of My Grandmother
- Artist: archibald john motley jr.
- Year: 1922
- Original dimensions: 111.0 x 75.0 cm
- Format: Tall
- Copyright status: Under copyright
- Color hue: Ochre to Sepia
- Perceived brightness: bright
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