The Chicago artist Kerry James Marshall has put the African-American experience at the center of his work for 3-½ decades, from barbershop and beauty-salon scenes to housing-project pastorals to ...

KERRY JAMES MARSHALL: This piece was sort of a reminder that these people are accessories to a crime in the first place, and that the heirlooms and the things that their offspring inherited from ...

With his large-scale, exuberant paintings, artist Kerry James Marshall is on a mission: to make the presence of black people and black culture in the art world "indispensable" and "undeniable ...

Kerry James Marshall wasn’t just upset when the city of Chicago revealed it was going to sell the painting he made for the Legler public library on Chicago’s West Side back in 1995.

Kerry James Marshall, A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self, 1980, eggtempera on paper, 8 x 6.5 in., Steven and Deborah Lebowitz.

“Kerry James Marshall: Mastry,” a new retrospective of Marshall’s work now showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art, follows the painter from his early book-size pieces to expansive ...

Kerry James Marshall made this painting in 2018, the year after his career retrospective, “Mastry,” attracted large crowds and garnered rave reviews in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. Most ...

One of Kerry James Marshall’s first reactions to news that Chicago intended to sell a public library mural he painted was to swear off making any more public art. “It just seemed like a way of ...

The blank wall at the top of the second-floor staircase where artist Kerry James Marshall’s monumental canvas “Knowledge & Wonder” once hung at the Chicago Public Library’s Legler Branch ...

Kerry James Marshall/San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Entering White’s studio at the Otis Art Institute in his teens, Marshall saw finished paintings alongside works in progress.

Kerry James Marshall (b. 1955) Untitled 2009 acrylic on pvc 61 1/8 x 72 7/8 x 3 7/8 inches (Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York) ...

In 2018, Marshall’s grandiose Past Time, 1997 piece was scale and deep hue personified. It was also rewarded as such after Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs purchased it for a staggering $21 million at a ...