The Late Barkley Hendricks to Be Honored in Upcoming Shows and Book

Barkley Hendricks, the late-revolutionary artist known the world over for his bold and captivating portrait paintings, is getting several posthumous exhibitions and a book in the near future. Having started in the 1960s, Hendricks life-size canvases depicted colorful portraits of Black Americans in a way that faithfully reflected the personalities of his subjects. Similar to the likes of Kerry James Marshall, Hendricks carried "an air of otherworldliness about his paintings," said in a past stat...