BARKLEY HENDRICKS

“Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at The Frick”, book by author Aimee Ng and Antwaun Sargent, with foreword by Thelma Golden and contributions by Derrick Adams and Hilton Als. Aimee Ng is Curator at The Frick Collection. Antwaun Sargent is a curator and a writer. Thelma Golden is director and chief curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem. American artist Barkley L. Hendricks (1945–2017) revolutionized contemporary portraiture with his vivid depictions of Black subjects beginning in the late 1960s. This book contextualizes Hendricks’s portraits at different stages of the country’s history and places him in the pantheon of innovative twentieth-century artists.