My first Magazine 1930's quello verissimo | Page 8

Saturday Night – Archibald J. Motley,
1935
The scenes painted by Montley are set in Chicago. His subjects were African-
American communities around the city, here we can see them in a jazz
nightclub on Saturday night. There are many people, they’re dancing, smoking
or drinking. His caricatured style was unique for the time, but represented the
negative stereotype of African Americans in media that he worked to reverse.