Barkley L. Hendricks

Barkley L. Hendricks and the Old Masters

December 11, 2023

Learn more about our highly acclaimed exhibition Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick with an excerpt from Curator Aimee Ng’s introductory essay from the show’s catalogue.

Barkley L. Hendricks: Fashion Forward

video still of full length portrait of woman dressed in black in gallery

Fashion is front and center in the portraiture of Barkley L. Hendricks, on display at Frick Madison through January 7, 2024. Listen to a reflection by Richard J. Powell, a scholar of the artist’s work and Duke University’s John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art and Art History, on the importance of style and self-fashioning in Hendricks’s groundbreaking paintings. 

All artworks shown are © Barkley L. Hendricks; courtesy of the Estate of Barkley L. Hendricks and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick

video still of painting of woman against gold background, between two statues

Curator Aimee Ng and Consulting Curator Antwaun Sargent introduce the exhibition Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick, on view at Frick Madison through January 7, 2024. The show presents fourteen of the finest portraits by the American painter displayed in the context of the Frick—one of his favorite museums—and explores the enduring legacies both of Hendricks’s pioneering work and of the museum itself.

Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick

Title: Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick

Authors: Aimee Ng and Antwaun Sargent, with contributions from Derrick Adams, Hilton Als, Nick Cave, Awol Erizku, Rashid Johnson, Fahamu Pecou, Mickalene Thomas, and Kehinde Wiley

Foreword by Thelma Golden

Publisher: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Frick Collection (2023)

Details: Hardcover, 7 1/2 x 10 1/2 in., 159 pages, 120 color illustrations

ISBN: 9780847873593