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 ...

Just days before the opening of a major exhibition of his work, the artist Kerry James Marshall was still polishing part of a sculpture with the appropriate word "perseverance." With his wife ...

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 plays masterly havoc with the conventions of Western art history.

After Chicago aimed to make a tidy profit off the sale of a public Kerry James Marshall painting, the artist has sworn off making public art.

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… ...

The piece of public art painted for the West Side Legler Branch library, a monumental canvas depicting African-American children being enlightened by books, has appreciated like crazy as Marshall ...

“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 ...

Up Close Kerry James Marshall’s Prints Throw Blackness Into Relief A new art book collects the painter’s printmaking oeuvre over almost half a century.

A retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art shows Marshall rewriting history Today Marshall’s pieces fetch more than $2 million at auction and are in the permanent collections of the ...

CHICAGO — When he studied art history in the 1970s in Los Angeles, Kerry James Marshall was struck by the absence of black artists in the "canon." ...

On View Kerry James Marshall’s Latest Show Puts His Stamp on Abstract and Pop Art—And Still Offers Dazzling New Figurative Paintings "History of Painting" in London is the highly regarded ...