DETAILS
- Artist
- Kerry James Marshall
- Date
- 2003
- Medium
- Polystyrene and latex on plywood, with ink-jet prints mounted in laminated acrylic
- Location
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Dimensions
- 203.3 × 144.8 × 88.9 cm (80 × 57 × 35 in.)
- Collection
- Contemporary Art
- Culture
- United States
- Credit line
- Gift of Susan and Lewis Manilow
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THE ARTIST
Kerry James Marshall
Kerry James Marshall challenges the marginalization of Black figures in Western art history through his monumental paintings, often featuring powerfully dark subjects.
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