Portrait of My Grandmother
1922
111.0 x 75.0 cm
archibald john motley jr. (1891 – 1981)
Archibald Motley Jr. (1891-1981): Artista del Renacimiento de Harlem famoso por representaciones vibrantes de la vida afroamericana en Chicago. Explora sus escenas de la Era del Jazz y su estilo modernista.
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.”
Sobre esta obra
- Título: Portrait of My Grandmother
- Artista: archibald john motley jr.
- Año: 1922
- Dimensiones originales: 111.0 x 75.0 cm
- Formato: Tall
- Estado de derechos de autor: Bajo derechos de autor
- Matiz de color: Ochre to Sepia
- Brillo percibido: bright