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Kerry James Marshall
De Style1993

Not on view
Large-scale painting of a barbershop interior with five flat black silhouetted figures, a barber cutting a client's hair, surrounded by vivid orange cabinetry, mirrors, signage, and scattered pink starburst shapes
Artist or Maker
Kerry James Marshall
United States, Alabama, Birmingham, born 1955
Title
De Style
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1993
Medium
Acrylic and collage on canvas
Dimensions
104 x 122 in. (264.16 x 309.88 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Ruth and Jacob Bloom
Accession Number
AC1993.76.1
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Contemporary Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Jolly, Penny Howell. Hair: Untangling a Social History. New York: The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, 2004.
  • Bartels, Kathleen S., and Jeff Wall. Kerry James Marshall. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 2010.
  • Picard, Caroline. "Kerry James Marshall: Profile of the Artist." The Seen no.2 (2016): 34-40.
  • Bodin, Claudia. "Der Pate." Art no.1 (2017): 84-93.
  • Dunham, Carroll. "The Marshall Plan." Artforum International 55, no.5 (January 2017): 182-189.
  • Keene, John. "Kerry James Marshall." Frieze no.184 (January/February 2017): 3, 136-137.
  • Williams, Thomas Chatterton. "Reviews II." in Even Magazine no.6 (2017): 65-72.

  • Schriber, Abbe. "Reviews: Art History, Remastered." Texte zur Kunst 27, no.105 (2017): 226-230.
  • Molesworth, Helen, ed. Kerry James Marshall: Mastry. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; New York: Skira Rizzoli Publications, 2016.
  • Haq, Nav, ed. Kerry James Marshall: Painting and Other Stuff. Antwerp: Ludion, 2014.
  • Kerry James Marshall: History of Painting. New York: David Zwirner Books, 2019.
  • Childs, Adrienne L. Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Phillips Collection, 2020.
  • Packer, Jennifer. Tenderheaded. Chicago: The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 2018.
  • Jordan Casteel: Within Reach. New York: New Museum, 2020.

  • Kim, Christine Y., and Myrtle Elizabeth Andrews, editors. Black American Portraits: From the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books-D.A.P., 2023.
Copyright
© Kerry James Marshall

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