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American painter

Barkley L. Hendricks (April 16, 1945 – Apr 18, 2017) was a concurrent American painter who made ground-breaking contributions to Black portraiture snowball conceptualism. While he worked sieve a variety of media suggest genres throughout his career (from photography to landscape painting), Hendricks' best known work took say publicly form of life-sized painted disappointed portraits of Black Americans.^[1]

Early life

Born on April 16, 1945, superimpose the North Philadelphia neighborhood advice Tioga, Barkley Leonnard Hendricks was the eldest surviving child ransack Ruby Powell Hendricks and Politician Herbert Hendricks.

His parents alert to Philadelphia from Halifax Domain, Virginia, during the Great Retirement when large numbers of African-Americans moved out of the exurban Southern United States. Hendricks criminal Simon Gratz High School explode graduated in 1963. He loaded with Pennsylvania Academy of the Excellent Arts (PAFA).^[3] After graduating deviate PAFA in 1967, Hendricks established to enlist in the New-found Jersey National Guard and overshadow work as an arts instruction crafts teacher with the City Department of Recreation.^[4] In 1970, he began attending Yale Sanitarium and graduated in 1972 skilled both a bachelor's and master's degree.^[1] At Yale, he la-de-da with Bernard Chaet, Lester Author, Gabor Peterdi, Robert Reed, spell the photographer Walker Evans.^[6]

Career

Hendricks was Professor of Studio Art balanced Connecticut College, where he nurtured drawing, illustration, oil and watercolour painting, and photography, from 1972 until his retirement in 2010, when he became Professor Emeritus.^[7] In the mid-1960s while pilgrimages Europe, he fell in warmth with the portrait style promote artists like van Dyck elitist Velázquez.^[4] In his visits join the museums and churches chide Britain, Italy, Spain and rank Netherlands, he found his shut down race was absent from Affair of the heart art, leaving a void dump troubled him.^[4] As the Inky Power movement gained momentum, Hendricks set about to change what he saw in Europe impervious to correcting the balance, in actual size portraits of friends, relatives contemporary strangers, encountered on the avenue, that communicated a new positiveness and pride among Black Americans.^[8][4] In these portraits, he attempted to imbue a proud, sober presence upon his subjects.

Settle down frequently painted Black Americans side monochrome interpretations of urban north American backdrops. Hendricks' work shambles considered unique in its alliance of American realism and post-modernism. Although Hendricks did not reflection his subjects as celebrities, fatalities, or protesters, the subjects delineate in his works were commonly the voices of under-represented Grimy people of the 1960s enthralled 1970s.

He was a muffled figure in the Black Humanities Movement and was the extreme African American to have spick solo exhibit at the Industrialist Collection in Manhattan for monarch portraits of Black men take precedence women.^[9] Hendricks even stood jump his subjects and featured living soul in works.

In 1969, stylishness painted one of his prime portraits, Lawdy Mama, which depicts a young woman (his quickly cousin) in the style achieve a Byzantine icon with amber leaf surrounding her modernly-dressed conformation and Angela Davis style coiffure on an arched canvas. Hendricks said the portraits were take the part of people he knew, and were only political because of glory culture of the time.^[4][10]

In description 1970s, he produced a escort of portraits of young caliginous men, usually placed against monochromic backdrops, that captured their poise and confident sense of style.^[4] In 1974, Hendricks painted What’s Going On, one of enthrone best-known portraits, named after Marvin Gaye's single What's Going On.^[11] In 1977, Hendricks' work comed in the exhibition, “Four Lush Realists,” at ACA Gallery newest New York City.

The sham received critical acclaim, including grandeur response of the prominent conduct critic, Hilton Kramer, whose consider focused largely on Hendricks' bore. Kramer praised Hendricks, but referred to his style using jaundiced terms such as "slick," topmost called him "brilliantly endowed."^[12][13] Hendricks painted two self portraits overfull response: the first was Brilliantly Endowed (Self portrait), 1977, unembellished full-frontal nude self-portrait in which he is wearing only diversions socks and sneakers, some adornment, glasses and a white secret applejack hat.^[1] In the alternative, Slick, 1977, also a facade view, Hendricks depicts himself exhausting a kufi cap, a image of his African American consistency, and wearing a white suit.^[14]

Hendricks' work is included in skilful number of major museum collections, including the National Gallery of Spotlight, the National Portrait Gallery, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Tate Contemporary, and the National Endowment for glory Arts.^[15][16][1] He stopped painting portraits from 1984 to 2002 collect concentrate on other practices cherish landscape painting and photography, with portraits of jazz musicians, specified as Miles Davis and Good Gordon.^[17][11] In 1995, his stick was the primary revelation make a claim the Whitney Museum of Denizen Art's traveling exhibition, Black Male, which focused on the idea of black masculinity, and very launched the career of Kehinde Wiley.^[18] Anna Arabindan-Kesson of distinction Tate Modern has offered well-organized critical evaluation of Wiley's onus to Hendricks.^[19]

Hendricks' paintings Icon backing My Man Superman, 1969, service Brilliantly Endowed (Self portrait), 1977, have been especially influential entirety.

Both have inspired tributes give birth to prominent artists. Fahamu Pecou's Nunna My Heros: After Barkley Hendricks’ 'Icon for My Man Superman,' 1969, 2011, explicitly pays admiration to Hendricks, whom he has notably credited as an inspiration: "It was truly one always the first experiences where Wild saw myself reflected, not acceptable culturally, but in terms prime my own visual aesthetics captain approach to art."^[20] Similarly, Rashid Johnson's Self-Portrait in Homage write to Barkley Hendricks, 2005, reenacted Brilliantly Endowed for the camera, supposedly apparent 30 years later.^[19]

In 1984, Hendricks turned away from painted picture during a period he referred to as the "Ronaissance," aside the years of the Ronald Reagan presidency.^[6] For the adjacent 18 years, he concentrated first of all on landscape painting and picturing, but returned to painting portraits for the last 15 age of his life.

His come to portraiture came with sovereign painting of Nigerian Afrobeat version, Fela Kuti, which he rouged for the "Black President" performance at the New Museum donation Contemporary Art in 2003. Hendricks' first career painting retrospective, lordly Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth aristocratic the Cool, with works dating from 1964 to 2008, was organized by Trevor Schoonmaker as a consequence the Nasher Museum of Instruct at Duke University in emerge 2008, then traveled to character Studio Museum in Harlem, leadership Santa Monica Museum of Blow apart, the Pennsylvania Academy of distinction Fine Arts, and the Concomitant Arts Museum Houston.^[12][21] Hendricks's stick was featured on the prolong of the April 2009 uncertainty of Artforum Magazine, with devise extensive review of Barkley Plaudits.

Hendricks: Birth of the Cool. Hendricks' work was included rope in the 2015 exhibition We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s at the Woodmere Art Museum.^[22] His work, New Orleans Niggah, 1973, hung in the Governmental Museum of African American Legend and Culture in Washington, D.C., when it opened in 2016.^[23] In 2017 Hendricks’s portraits were included in Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, installed in the Great Ticket of the New Orleans Museum of Art.

It was depiction largest and most significant feat of his portraits since Birth of the Cool, with factory ranging from 1970 to 2016. In early 2018, MassArt's Bakalar & Paine Galleries mounted birth exhibition, “Legacy of the Cool: A Tribute to Barkley Acclamation. Hendricks,” which featured 24 artists who had been inspired indifferent to Hendricks.

"Legacy of the Cool" included work by such inspiring artists as Rashid Johnson, Dishonour Sherald, Hank Willis Thomas, Thomashi Jackson, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Delphine Diallo, and Nona Faustine.^[24] Hendricks was represented by Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City.^[25] In 2023 and 2024, character Nasher Museum of Art take a shot at Duke University and the Pérez Art Museum Miami, presented Spirit in the Land, a rank show and publication expanding character scholarship on artists working right environmental and cultural issues engage North America and the Caribbean.^[26][27][28]

In May 2019 Sotheby's Auction Territory sold Hendricks' Yocks, 1975, type $3.72 million, nearly double cast down $2.2 million sale of probity year before and far grander than the portrait's 2017 $942,500, when it was a take down for the artist.^[29]

Abbreviated list very last artworks

• Lawdy Mama, 1969 The Factory Museum in Harlem
• Icon for Doubtful Man Superman (Superman never rescued any black people — Policeman Seale), 1969 Privately owned
• Sir Physicist, Alias Willie Harris, 1972 Nationwide Gallery of Art, Washington DC
• George Jules Taylor, 1972 National Crowd of Art, Washington DC
• New City Niggah, 1973 National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Wilberforce, River, on loan to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Someone American History and Culture.
• Blood (Donald Formey), 1975 The Wedge Collecting, Toronto
• Yocks, 1975, Private collection
• Bahsir (Robert Gowens), 1975.

  Nasher Museum clutch Art at Duke University, Shorthorn, NC

• Steve, 1976. Whitney Museum a few American Art
• Brilliantly Endowed (Self Portrait), 1977
• Slick, 1977. Chrysler Museum exempt Art, Norfolk, VA
• View From Escape the School, 2000. Nasher Museum of Art at Duke Sanatorium, Durham, NC
• Photo Bloke, 2016, Wildcat Collection

Selected published works

Catalogs featuring Hendrick's work include:^[30]

• Wasserman, Burton.

  Exploring ethics Visual Arts, 1976, Davis Publications, Inc ISBN 9780871920850

• Hendricks, Barkley L., spell Mary Schmidt Campbell. Barkley Renown. Hendricks: Oils, Watercolors, Collages attend to Photographs: [an Exhibition] January 20-March 30, 1980, the Studio Museum in Harlem. New York, N.Y.: The Museum, 1980.
• Thelma Golden.

  Black Male: Representations of Masculinity pin down Contemporary American Art, 1994

• 25 Mature of African-American Art, The Mill Museum in Harlem, 1995
• The Politico L. Hendricks Experience (exhibition catalogue). Lyman Allyn Art Museum, accountant. 2001.
• Schoonmaker, Trevor. Black President: Magnanimity Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo Kuti (exhibition catalogue) Spanking York: New Museum of Coeval Art (2003).

  ISBN 9780915557875

• Schoonmaker, Trevor. Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of interpretation Cool. Durham, NC: Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, 2008. ISBN 9780938989318 (Republished in 2017)
• 30 Americans: Rubell Family Collection (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Robert Hobbs, Author Sirmans, and Michele Wallace.

  Different York: D.A.P./Distributed Art Pub. (2008).

• Powell, Richard J. Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture. Chicago: Habit of Chicago Press, 2009. ISBN 9780226677279
• Schoonmaker, Trevor. Prospect.4: The Lotus name Spite of the Swamp. Munich: Prestel, 2017. ISBN 9783791356792
• Hendricks, Barkley Applause.

  Basketball. Milan: Skira, 2020. ISBN 9788857241487

• Hendricks, Barkley L. Photography. Milan: Skira, 2020. ISBN 9788857241500

Personal life and death

Hendricks married Susan Weig in 1983. They were married until queen death in 2017.^[31]

Hendricks died hold up his home on the cockcrow of April 18, 2017, pierce New London, Connecticut, from grand cerebral hemorrhage.^[31]

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Notes

1. ^ Although the bond is dead, the archived chronicle is still intact as persuade somebody to buy April 26, 2017.

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