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View all 22 artworks. Kerry James Marshall was born in 1955, a remarkable figure of American Contemporary. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
- American
- October 17, 1955
- Birmingham, United States
- Childhood
- Education and Early Training
- Mature Period
- The Legacy of Kerry James Marshall
Kerry James Marshall was born a son of the contemporary Black American experience. He was birthed in Alabama, the second of three sons to a homemaker mother and postal worker father, who later toted the family to the Watts area of Los Angeles. Growing up in the Southern California neighborhood that was notoriously near the headquarters of the activ...
While still in high school, at the age of fourteen, Marshall began taking summer classes at Otis College of Art and Design. Particularly influential were his painting class with Sam Clayberger, and his figure drawing class with social realist artist Charles White, who intimidated Marshall at first, but then, "became as much as a friend as a mentor....
In 1987, Marshall moved to Chicago with his bride-to-be, playwright, director, and actress Cheryl Lynn Bruce (who had been working at the Studio Museum while Marshall did his residency). The move to Chicago was challenging at first, as he had no connections in the city other than his new in-laws. During his first two years there, he lived solo in a...
Along with other Contemporary artists of color, including Howardena Pindell, Charlene Teters, and Fred Wilson, Kerry James Marshall has catapulted to the forefront issues of race and Black representation in his painting. By depicting Black bodies, he has sought to "offset the impression that beauty is synonymous with whiteness," or, that historical...
- African-American
- October 17, 1955
- Birmingham, Alabama
Overview. Inscriptions and Markings. Provenance. Exhibition History. References. Title: Untitled (Studio) Artist: Kerry James Marshall (American, born Birmingham, Alabama, 1955) Date: 2014. Medium: Acrylic on PVC panels. Dimensions: 83 5/16 × 119 1/4 in . (211.6 × 302.9 cm) Classification: Paintings.
Kerry James Marshall (born October 17, 1955) is an American artist and professor, known for his paintings of Black figures. He previously taught painting at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago .
- Cheryl Lynn Bruce
- MacArthur Fellowship
- Otis College of Art and Design
- October 17, 1955 (age 67), Birmingham, Alabama, US
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- American
This spectacular work was the first by Kerry James Marshall (born 1955) to enter The Met's collection. It crowns an extraordinary career of painting African American subjects and history in a manner that both reveres and revises the Old Masters.
Artworks. See all 19 artworks. Many Mansions, 1994Kerry James Marshall. Africa Restored (Cheryl as Cleopatra), 2003Kerry James Marshall. Study for “Many Mansions”, 1994Kerry James Marshall. Study for Many Mansions (Profile), n.d.Kerry James Marshall. Study for Many Mansions, 1994Kerry James Marshall.
