ARTSBEAT | NYTIMES
By Randy Kennedy
NEW YORK---The Whitney Museum of American Art announced that it had acquired its first work by
Archibald Motley, an under-recognized 20th-century painter whose stark portraits and tumultuous dance-club scenes helped define the Chicago and Harlem Renaissances. The newly acquired painting, “Gettin’ Religion,” from 1948, is an angular, people-packed nighttime Chicago street scene that Dana Miller, a Whitney curator and the director of the museum’s collection, compared to the contemporaneous urban visions of
Edward Hopper and
Reginald Marsh, “who captured the everyday life of the city in their works.” [
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