Hendricks, Barkley L., 1945-2017

found: Wikipedia, Sept. 08. 2014(Barkley L. Hendricks (born 1945, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a contemporary American painter who has made pioneering contributions to black portraiture and conceptualism. While he has worked in a variety of media and genres throughout his career (from photography to landscape painting), Hendricks' best known work takes the form of life-sized painted oil portraits. Hendricks earned his certificate at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and received both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Yale University)

found: Jack Shainman Gallery, Sept. 08, 2014(Barkley L. Hendricks; painter and photographer best known for his realist and post-modern portraits of people of color living in urban areas beginning in the 1960s and 70s and continuing to the present. Hendricks was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and currently lives and works in New London, CT) - http://www.jackshainman.com/artists/barkley-hendricks/

found: African American National Biography, accessed January 29, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Hendricks, Barkley; Barkley L. Hendricks; painter, educator, photographer, jazz musician; born 16 April 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. He enrolled in Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (1963); earned B.F.A. and M.F.A. from Yale University in just two years (1970-1972); won the Cresson (1966) and the Scheidt (1967) scholarships for study and travel abroad; his first solo show was at the Philadelphia Art Alliance (1968); served in the National Guard (1968-1973). He was an assistant professor at Connecticut College (1972); broadcasted a jazz and blues radio show at Connecticut College called Scenes in the City"; had solo exhibitions at Studio Museum in Harlem (1980) and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1985); exhibited at Whitney Museum of Art (1971); was honored by the National Institute of Arts and Letters (1972), the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1971, 1977), and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts (1991))

found: New York times WWW site, viewed Apr. 24, 2017(in obituary published Apr. 21: Barkley L. Hendricks; b. Barkley Leonnard Hendricks, Apr. 16, 1945, Philadelphia; d. Tuesday [Apr. 18, 2017], New London, Conn., aged 72; painter who gave new representation to ordinary black men and women, memorializing them in portraits that echoed the grand manner of the old masters)