Sir Charles, Alias Willie Harris
1972
Artist, American, 1945 - 2017

Artwork overview
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Medium
oil and acrylic on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 213.04 × 183.52 × 6.35 cm (83 7/8 × 72 1/4 × 2 1/2 in.)
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Accession
1973.19.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The artist; purchased May 1973 through (Kenmore Galleries, Inc., Philadelphia) by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1975
Barkley Hendricks - Recent Paintings, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville South Carolina; Columbia Museum of Art & Science, Columbia, South Carolina, 1975, not in catalogue.
2005
Back to Black: Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; New Art Gallery Walsall, 2005, unnumbered catalogue.
2008
Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York; Santa Monica Museum of Art; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 2008-2010, no. 17 (not shown in Santa Monica).
2014
Face Value: Portraiture in the Age of Abstraction, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, 2014-2015, no. 42, repro.
Bibliography
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 173, repro.
1992
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 198, repro.
Inscriptions
upper right: B. Hendricks 72
Wikidata ID
Q20197418