Barkley L. Hendricks, Vendetta

signed "B. Hendricks" upper right; signed, titled and dated ""VENDETTA" 1977 BARKLEY L. HENDRICKS" on the overlap
oil, acrylic and Magna on canvas
35 7/8 x 48 in. (91.1 x 121.9 cm)
Painted in 1977.

Provenance

ACA Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2007

Exhibited

Durham, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool, February 7, 2008–April 18, 2010, no. 35, pp. 38-39, 41, 85, 131 (detail illustrated, p. 38; Vendetta with the present work in the artist’s studio illustrated, p. 39; illustrated, p. 85)

Literature

The Barkley L. Hendricks Experience, exh. cat., Lyman Allyn Museum of Art, New London, Connecticut, 2001, pp. 6, 8 (illustrated, p. 6)
Richard J. Powell, Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture, Chicago, 2008, no. 78, pp. 156, 166, 169, 219, 270, 275 (illustrated, p. 156)
Amy White, “Barkley L. Hendricks’ Nasher show: Art history, honored and challenged,” INDY Week, March 5, 2008, online
Araceli Cruz, “Cool Cat,” The Village Voice, November 5, 2008, online
Kelly Klaasmeyer, “The Art of Cool,” HoustonPress, March 10, 2010, online
“At Home in New London with Artist Barkley Hendricks,” Hartford Courant, April 30, 2010, online
Trevor Schoonmaker, “Barkley L. Hendricks: Reverberations,” Fresh Paint, 2012, p. 98
Robin Cembalest, “Reinventing the African American Portrait,” ARTnews, August 1, 2013, online (dated 1978)
Jared Bowen, “With his camera, artist Barkley L. Hendricks brought his world view into focus,” GBH. Boston Public Radio, March 16, 2022, online
Jared Bowen, “New exhibit chronicles work of late painter Barkley Hendricks and his use of the camera,” PBS News Hour, May 18, 2022, online
Zoé Whitley, ed., Barkley L. Hendricks: Solid!, Milan, 2023, p. 79 (illustrated; dated 1978)
Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick, exh. cat., The Frick Collection, New York, 2023, fig. 83, pp. 108-109, 158 (installation view in the artist’s studio illustrated, p. 109)