1934, Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Picnic -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the exhibition label: Beneath a verdant tree, several men and women cluster around a table for a lively gathering, a rare scene of friendship, gaiety, and urbane leisure. Among Motley's modernizing interventions was the extensive use of non-naturalistic color—here, the natural browns of the skin tones and the massive tree trunk take on soft mauve and purple-black hues—which complicated his ostensibly illusionistic aesthetic.
1934, Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Picnic -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the exhibition label: Beneath a verdant tree, several men and women cluster around a table for a lively gathering, a rare scene of friendship, gaiety, and urbane leisure. Among Motley's modernizing interventions was the extensive use of non-naturalistic color—here, the natural browns of the skin tones and the massive tree trunk take on soft mauve and purple-black hues—which complicated his ostensibly illusionistic aesthetic.