Artist:
Barkley L. Hendricks
(1945 - 2017)
Boxing Day (Part Deux)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 2003
Dimensions:
18 3/4 × 26 1/2 in. (47.6 × 67.3 cm)
Accession number: 2020.9
Copyright: © Estate of Barkley L. Hendricks. Courtesy of the artist’s estate and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
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Barkley L. Hendricks was a pioneering painter, photographer, and influential teacher originally from Philadelphia. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Yale University and taught for decades at Connecticut College. He is recognized primarily for his series of life-size paintings of Black men and women—including himself—shown either nude or dressed in colorful fashions. In addition to his figurative paintings, Hendricks created a large body of lesser-known landscapes from the 1990s until his death in 2017. Painted in Jamaica—where he would travel each winter—these are spontaneous plein air compositions of the island’s landscapes.
Curatorial RemarksBarkley L. Hendricks was a pioneering Black painter, photographer, and influential teacher originally from Philadelphia. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Yale University, and taught for decades at Connecticut College. He is recognized primarily for his series of paintings depicting life-size Black men and women dressed in colorful fashions. In addition to his figurative paintings, Hendricks created a large body of lesser-known landscapes from the 1990s until his death in 2017. Painted in Jamaica—where he would travel each winter—these are spontaneous plein air compositions of the island’s landscapes.
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