Barkley Hendricks (Born 1945) is an artist from Philadelphia. He works primarily with large-scale paintings of African-American subjects. The subjects exude a sense of pride, dignity, self-assurance and beauty reflected in their style, wardrobe and pose. The ideals of Black Power which are exuded in the portraits is central to his work. A retrospective
(The Birth of Cool), which began at the Studio Museum in Harlem, is currently making stops in
Santa Monica, Philadelphia and Houston.
North Philly Niggah
Tyrone
Tony
Hendricks' paintings offer a variety of styles which have evolved offer his prolific career. The technical virtuosity of his later paintings, like Tony, border on the tradition of photorealism.
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