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Painting
Into the Woods
Sam Gilliam, 1933 -
Gilliam, Sam
United States
1933
Male
Primary
59 3/4 x 44 3/4 in. (151.8 x 113.7 cm)
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overall
overall
Acrylic
Acrylic
2017
2017
2017
Painting
2018.31
item
Memorial Art Gallery
4/3/2018
2018.31DI#1
digital image
4/4/2018
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2018.31DI#2
digital image
7/16/2019
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Painting
Untitled
Sam Gilliam, 1933 -
Gilliam, Sam
United States
1933
Male
Primary
304 x 114 1/2 in. (772.2 x 290.8 cm)
Acrylic
Acrylic
2018
2018
2018
Painting
2018.32
item
Memorial Art Gallery
8/31/2018
2018.32DI#1
00/00/00
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2018.32-2018.33DI#1
digital image
7/16/2019
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2018.32DI#2
digital image
7/16/2019
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2018.32DI#3
digital image
11/20/2019
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Painting
Untitled
Sam Gilliam, 1933 -
Gilliam, Sam
United States
1933
Male
Primary
286 1/2 x 118 in. (727.7 x 299.7 cm)
Acrylic
Acrylic
2018
2018
2018
Painting
2018.33
item
Memorial Art Gallery
8/31/2018
2018.33DI#1
00/00/00
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2018.32-2018.33DI#1
digital image
7/16/2019
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2018.33DI#2
digital image
7/16/2019
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2018.33DI#3
digital image
11/20/2019
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Painting
After Memling’s Portrait of a Man with a Letter
Kehinde Wiley, 1977 -
Wiley, Kehinde
United States
1977
Male
Primary
24 1/2 x 19 3/4 x 4 13/16 in. (62.2 x 50.1 x 12.2 cm)
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overall
frame
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sight
image
Oil
Oil
2013
2013
2013
Images of Black People
Painting
This portrait is one of eight in Kehinde Wiley’s series based upon the work of Northern Renaissance painter Hans Memling (1430–1494). Memling created sensitive, quiet portraits of the growing merchant class of his time set within landscapes and cast in natural light. Here, Wiley blends Memling’s style with contemporary street culture in a way that elevates and immortalizes his modern sitter, a resident of Brooklyn, Rafton Glean (his name is painted on the doors of the frame).
Wiley has explained, “I try to use the black body in my work to counter the absence of that body in museum spaces throughout the world.” In 2018, the artist was chosen by President Barack Obama to paint his official portrait (right), now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery. At the unveiling, the President commended Wiley for his ability to show “the beauty and the grace and the dignity” of black people.
[Label text for Hawks Gallery reinstallation, summer 2019]
back of panelinside doors of frame, the model's name
Kehinde Wiley
2013.79
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/5/2013
2013.79DI#1
digital image
9/5/2013
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2013.79DI#2
overall with frame
digital image
00/00/00
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2013.79DI#3
detail
digital image
Right side
00/00/00
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2013.79DI#4
digital image
Detail
5/27/2015
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2013.79DI#5
digital image
5/27/2015
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Painting
Portrait of Qusuquzah #6
Mickalene Thomas, (Camden, NJ, 1971 - )
Thomas, Mickalene
United States
1971
Female
Primary
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
Acrylic
Acrylic
2015
2015
2015
Images of Black People
Painting
New-York-based artist Mickalene Thomas is best known for her elaborate paintings composed of rhinestones, acrylic, and oil enamel. Her work introduces a complex vision of what it means to be a woman and expands common definitions of beauty.
Thomas’s paintings are based on photographic portraits of models whose qualities allow her to articulate and explore questions of beauty, power, sexuality, and femininity.
"I tend to work with the same models. A lot of them are friends.…So it’s women I work with in proximity to and whose energy I enjoy, and they just have a certain charisma that I’m drawn to. Especially Qusuquzah. There’s something about her. She brings something powerful to the image that amazes me through her gaze. I try to pull out those elements. I’m trying to hold onto the truth she brings in the photograph."
[Gallery label text, Forman Gallery, Summer 2015]
2015.1
item
Memorial Art Gallery
3/11/2015
2015.1DI#1
digital image
00/00/00
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2015.1DI#2
digital image
9/12/2019
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Painting
The 7 Yard
Daze, (Brooklyn, NY, 1962 - )
Daze
United States
1962
Male
Primary
46 1/16 x 46 1/16 in. (117 x 117 cm)
Oil
Oil
2011
2011
2011
Images of Black People
Painting
One of the most prominent and influential New York City graffiti artists, Daze is best known for his wall writing and spay-painting on subway cars during the late 1970s and early 1980s. By the mid-1980s he was transitioning to painting on canvas.
Daze’s pictures capture the grit and energy of the city he loves. The 7 Yard features the artist’s iconic graffiti markings in acrylic, the soft impression of a young woman’s face rendered in spray-paint, and a hyper-detailed depiction of a train yard in oil paint, which is remarkably similar to the train yard near MAG here in Rochester.
Rochester’s WALL\THERAPY project sponsored four large-scale exterior murals by Daze. Visit www.wall-therapy.com for more information.
[Gallery wall text October 2016]
back of canvas
2016.180
item
Memorial Art Gallery
8/5/2016
2016.180DI#1
digital image
8/5/2016
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2016.180DI#2
digital image
6/7/2017
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