KERRY JAMES MARSHALL 'Mastry' FIRST EDITION

2016

Archival inkjet print created for The Royal Academy of the Arts for the ongoing show, "Kerry James Marshall: The Histories." Part of the Vignette series produced on fine 330gsm textu...

This finely printed exhibition poster from “James Marshall: The Histories” highlights Still Life with Wedding Portrait, a deeply resonant work in which Marshall intertwines personal ...

Offset lithograph poster published by The Royal Academy of the Arts for the ongoing show, "Kerry James Marshall: The Histories." Paper Size: 19.75 x 15.75 inches ( 50 x 40 cm ) ...

Offset lithograph poster published by The Royal Academy of the Arts for the ongoing show, "Kerry James Marshall: The Histories." Paper Size: 14 x 11 inches ( 36 x 28 cm ) Image ...

Beautiful poster created for the 2016 exhibition of American artist Kerry James Marshall at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, or The Met, in New York. Held from October 2016 to January...

The definitive monograph on contemporary African American painter Kerry James Marshall, accompanying a major traveling retrospective. This long-awaited volume celebrates the work of ...

The most comprehensive book yet on this inspired, inventive chronicler of the African-American experience Alabama-born, Chicago-based Kerry James Marshall is one of the most excit...

Kerry James Marshall Keeping the Culture, 2011 Silkscreen and linocut in colors with full margins and deckled edges on Arches paper with full margins and deckled edges 20-1/4 x 30-1/4 inches Hand signed, titled and numbered 79/100 by Kerry James Marshall in graphite pencil on the front Published by Africa House International, Chicago Unframed In September, 2025, "Kerry James Marshall: The Histories" opened at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. This major exhibition was the largest presentation of Marshall's work in the United Kingdom and Europe, and featured more than 70 works by the the artist, including a large number of paintings and a selection of prints, drawings and sculptures. Highlights of the show include a new series of paintings that explore the transatlantic slave trade, along with Knowledge and Wonder, a mural commissioned in 1995 by the Chicago Public Library that is the largest painting Marshall has produced. The exhibition at the Royal Academy will then travel to the Kunsthaus Zurich and the Musee d'Art Modern in Paris. Kerry James Marshall's 2011 "Keeping the Culture" is based upon the artist's eponymous painting done the year earlier, which is featured in the Royal Academy Exhibition. In 2013, an original painting, upon which this work is based, sold at Christie's auction. Below is the Christie's Lot Essay for that painting: ..." Set in a revolutionary apartment in the cosmos, Kerry James Marshall's Keeping the Culture optimistically anticipates a future that pays homage to the past. Ushering in a new stage of the artist's output, Keeping the Culture shifts focus from the failed utopia of urban renewal and the commemoration of civil rights era heroes in favor of a more technically refined meditation on the preservation of the traditional and spiritual values that shaped a culture. Placed in an ultramodern environment, two siblings marvel at a projection of the earth--in which Marshall has aptly positioned the African continent toward the viewer-while their affectionate parents dance in the foreground. Overlooking the milky way, Marshall's space-age flat is decorated with earthly relics-wooden tribal sculptures...