Installation view of ‘Kerry James Marshall: Mastry’ featuring “De Style” (1993) at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (photo by Nathan Keay, © MCA ...

The retrospective of the work of Kerry James Marshall demonstrates a deep knowledge of blackness and a desire to expand the world of art with it. “I / Is the total black, being spoken / From the earth ...

A highly truncated timeline since World War II, with only some recency bias. By M.H. Miller Eileen Harris Norton “built a whole new mountain and somehow got everyone to come climb up it,” the artist ...

The artistic trajectory of painter Kerry James Marshall was determined by civil rights movements. Born in 1955 in Birmingham, Alabama, he observed an upheaval before his family relocated to Watts in ...

From the November 2025 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. Kerry James Marshall’s retrospective at the Royal Academy presents the visitor with any number of surprises. Chief among them is the ...

American artist Kerry James Marshall has produced his first-ever formal portrait, choosing to depict the renowned African American scholar and historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr., often known as Skip.

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Superlatives have been lavished upon Kerry James Marshall, and understandably so. His acclaimed paintings of the past four and a half decades have challenged the systemic exclusion of Black figures ...

Next month, London’s Royal Academy of Arts will lift the veil on The Histories, the most extensive European survey of celebrated painter Kerry James Marshall. Coinciding with the artist’s 70th ...

How much does a Kerry James Marshall cost? Kerry James Marshall's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices of up to 21,114,500 USD for paintings, and 1,774,500 USD for ...

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