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T-shirt with green collar, red short sleeves and print of a painted portrait of a man wearing a…
t-shirt
T-shirt with green collar, red short sleeves and print of a painted portrait of a man wearing a…
T-shirt
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Artist (born 1955)
Designer (born 1992)
Spring 2023
Cotton jersey
England
Museum purchase
Object number2022.51.1
British designer Grace Wales Bonner’s collaboration with renowned American contemporary artist Kerry James Marshall builds a cross-diasporic network that also fuses fashion and art. She states, “His artistic achievements opened my eyes to the real power and liberating possibilities of image making. By so elegantly centralizing the Black figure in his work, Kerry showed me just how different things could be, how ideals of beauty can be challenged, and how it is possible to gracefully infiltrate the canon and change it from within.” Their collection supports Study and Struggle, a Mississippi organization combating anti-Black racism and mass incarceration.
DescriptionCotton short sleeve t-shirt printed with male portrait, detail of Kerry James Marshall's 1993 painting Lost Boys: aka Black Sonny; red sleeves
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