About the Artwork
Icon for My Man Superman (Superman never saved any black people - Bobby Seale)
2009
Barkley L. Hendricks
1945-2017
American
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Pigment on archival paper
Sheet: 14 inches × 10 7/8 inches (35.6 × 27.6 cm) Framed: 21 1/16 × 18 1/16 × 1 1/2 inches (53.5 × 45.9 × 3.8 cm)
Prints
Contemporary Art after 1950
Museum Purchase, gift of Frank W. Donovan by exchange
2018.38
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Markings
Signed and dated, lower left: Barkley Hendricks 2009
Inscribed, lower center: Icon for my man Superman (Superman never saved any black | people - Bobby Seale)" Inscribed, lower right: 36/50
Provenance
(Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, New York, USA);2018-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Barkley L. Hendricks, Icon for My Man Superman (Superman never saved any black people - Bobby Seale), 2009, pigment on archival paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, gift of Frank W. Donovan by exchange, 2018.38.
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