Name that mood!
detail from Barbecue, 1960
oil on canvas
Archibald Motley, Jr., American
ETA: Today, March 21, 2024, I was reading news and when I got to the Arts and Ideas section, I thought, Huh, that painting looks familiar. It was a different part of the same painting shown above. Here’s the blurb about it from The New York Times:
How it started: A century ago tonight, a dinner party in New York set in motion one of the most influential cultural movements of the 20th century. Charles S. Johnson and Alain Locke, two Black academic titans, gathered the brightest of Harlem’s creative and political scene to mingle with white purveyors of culture. The relationships formed that night would soon blossom into the Harlem Renaissance.
At the time, little was written in the news media about the party. But Veronica Chambers, a Times journalist, and Michelle May-Curry, a curator in Washington, D.C., have reconstructed the evening. They used rarely seen letters and other archival material.
Frantic fun… especially glad you are back