# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/archibald-motley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:20:33.252Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/archibald-motley"
name: "Archibald Motley"
slug: "archibald-motley"
description: "Archibald John Motley Jr., was an American visual artist. Motley is most famous for his colorful chronicling of the African-American experience in Chicago during the 1920s through 1940s, and is considered one of the major contributors to the Harlem Renaissance or New Negro Movement, a time in which African-American art reached new heights not just in New York but across America—its local expression is referred to as the Chicago Black Renaissance. Born in New Orleans and raised in Chicago, Motley studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago during the 1910s, graduating in 1918."
tagline: "African American artist (1891-1981)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Self_Portrait_of_Archibald_Motley.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1891-10-07"
deathDate: "1981-01-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.42
  momentum:             14.86363636363636
  historical:           5.309146666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Archibald Motley"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "اركيبالد موتلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Motley"
    title: "Archibald Motley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/7390175"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Motley"
    title: "Archibald Motley"
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  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Motley"
    title: "Archibald Motley"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4786462"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump