Artworks from the Barkley L. Hendricks exhibition are displayed on Monday, Sept. 18, 2023 at The Frick Madison in New York. Hendricks, who died in 2017, is the first artist of color to have a solo exhibit at the Frick. ''Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick'' is open now through Jan. 7, 2024.
Pioneering Black portraitist Barkley L. Hendricks is first artist of color to get solo show at Frick

Born in Philadelphia, Hendricks studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later attended Yale’s school of art.

Pioneering Black portraitist Barkley L. Hendricks is first artist of color to get solo show at Frick

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