Archibald John Motley Jr.: A Life in Color Early Life and Education Born October 7, 1891, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Archibald John Motley Jr. was a pivotal figure in American art. His family relocated to Chicago in 1894, where his father worked as a Pullman car porter. This move profoundly shaped Motley’s life and artistic perspective. Motley attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago during the 1910s, graduating in 1…