Painting of three black youths gardening, residential towers loom in the background.

Many Mansions

1994

Kerry James Marshall American, born 1955

Artist
Kerry James Marshall
Origin
United States
Medium
Acrylic on paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions
289.6 × 342.9 cm (114 × 135 in.)
Credit Line
Max V. Kohnstamm Fund
Reference Number #
1995.147
  • Madeleine Grynsztejn and Dave Hickey, About Place: Recent Art of the Americas, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1995), 31, 101, pl. 35 (color ill.), 125, pl. 39 (by error).
  • Catherine David, Documenta X: Short Guide, exh. cat. (Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz, 1997), 304.
  • Andrea D. Barnwell, “Portfolio,” in Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 24, no. 2 (1999), 81, 82, no. 28 (color ill.).
  • James Cuno, Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 148 (color ill.).
  • James Cuno, Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 165 (color ill.).
  • Jessie L. Whitehead, “Invisibility of Blackness: Visual Responses of Kerry James Marshall” Art Education 62, no. 2 (March 2009): 36, fig. 2 (ill.).
  • Jeff Wall and Kathleen S Bartels, Kerry James Marshall, exh. cat. (Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 2010), 24-25 (color ill.), 49.
  • Helen Molesworth, Ian Alteveer, Dieter Roelstraete, Lanka Tattersall, Kerry James Marshall: Mastry, exh. cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; New York: Skira Rizzoli Publications, 2016), 35, (color ill.), 50, fig. 19 (color ill., detail), 134-35, cat. 29 (color ill.), 262.
  • Charles Gaines, Greg Tate, and Laurence Rassel, Kerry James Marshall (London: Phaidon Press Ltd, 2017), 56 (color ill.), 158.
  • James Rondeau, Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2017), 169 (color ill.).
  • Art Institute of Chicago, American Painting and Sculpture 76th Annual: About Place: Recent Art from the Americas, Mar. 11–May 21, 1995, no cat. no.
  • Kassel, Germany, Museum Fridericianum, Documenta X, June 21–Sept. 28, 1997, no cat. no.
  • Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, Kerry James Marshall, May 8, 2010–Jan. 10, 2011, no cat. no.
  • Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Kerry James Marshall: Mastry, Apr. 23–Sept. 25, 2016, cat. 29; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oct. 25, 2016–Jan. 29, 2017, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Mar. 12–July 3, 2017.
Large black sculpture in the shape of Africa. The form is covered in gold chains, circular photographs or "medallions" depicting prominent African American figures, and other images and text. The sculpture hangs on a white wall. "

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Kerry James Marshall

Polystyrene and latex on plywood, with ink-jet prints mounted in laminated acrylic

2003-ongoing

A work made of black and white conté crayon, with stumping, on ivory wove paper.

Study for "Many Mansions"

Kerry James Marshall

Black and white Conté crayon, with stumping, on ivory wove paper

1994

A work made of black and white conté crayon, with stumping, on ivory wove paper.

Study for Many Mansions (Profile)

Kerry James Marshall

Black and white Conté crayon, with stumping, on ivory wove paper

n.d.

A work made of charcoal on white wove paper.

Study for Many Mansions

Kerry James Marshall

Charcoal on white wove paper

1994

A work made of brown and black fiber-tipped pen on white wove paper, with a mechanically prepared blue grid.

Study for Many Mansions

Kerry James Marshall

Brown and black fiber-tipped pen on white wove paper, with a mechanically prepared blue grid

n.d.

A work made of black conté crayon on white wove paper.

Study for Many Mansions

Kerry James Marshall

Black Conté crayon on white wove paper

1994