Café, Paris, 1929

  • Archibald John Motley, Jr., American, 1891 - 1981

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 23 5/8 × 28 7/8 inches (60 × 73.3 cm)
  • 27 3/4 inches × 33 inches × 2 3/4 inches (70.5 × 83.8 × 7 cm)

Museum Purchase, Ernest & Rosemarie Kanzler Foundation Fund

2018.71

Valerie Gerrard Browne and Mara Motley (Charleston, South Carolina, USA)

2018-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Murrel, Denise. The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New Haven, London, 2024, p. 210.

Archibald John Motley, Jr., Café, Paris, 1929, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Ernest & Rosemarie Kanzler Foundation Fund, 2018.71.