To confirm scheduling and dates, call the Communications Department at Marshall is a history painter whose work reflects and challenges the time and culture he inhabits. Driven by an examination of the historical dearth and relatively recent appearance of the black figure in Western painting, he is immersed in the past and present of paintingβparticularly the century-long conflict between figuration and abstraction.
He is also committed to a vision of American history that represents the narrativesβtriumphs and failures bothβof individual African Americans as well as the concept of blackness as a whole. In the grand scale of the Old Masters, Marshall creates works that engage with themes of visibility and invisibility, portraiture and self-portraiture, religious iconography, the politics of Pan-Africanism and black militancy, and the ethics of painting.
The exhibition is accompanied by a selection of approximately 35 objects chosen by Kerry James Marshall from The Met collection. Tony and Marti Oppenheimer Foundation. With works of art ranging in date from the second to the early 20th century, this exhibition explores important artistic achievements from culturally distinct Indigenous peoples throughout the North American continent. The selected works demonstrate the unique visons of indigenous artists who worked in a wide variety of aesthetic forms and media in innovative ways that defy categorization.
The exhibition is made possible in part by the Estate of Brooke Astor. On the corner of 69th Street and Central Park West he suffered a fatal heart attack. The poignant circumstances of his death serve as the inspiration for this focused show. The exhibition assembles several groups of iconic works, including self-portraits; expressionist, mythical interiors; robust, colorful portraits of women and performers; landscapes; and triptychs.
The exhibition is made possible by The Isaacson-Draper Foundation. The greatest French follower of Caravaggio β , Valentin de Boulogne β , was also one of the outstanding artists in 17thβcentury Europe. Valentin de Boulogne is the first monographic exhibition devoted to this artist, who is little known because his career was short-livedβhe died at age 41βand his works are so rare. Around 60 paintings by Valentin survive, and this exhibition brings together 45 of them, with works coming from Rome, Vienna, Munich, Madrid, London, and Paris.
