Kerry James Marshall Print on Paper. Print size: 11in x 17in Stamp signed on verso. Provenance: NY Collector. Sold as is to the manner or style of the artist, Good Condition, See photos. is an American artist and professor, known for his paintings of Black figures. He previously taught painting at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2017, Marshall was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. He was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama and moved in childhood to South Central Los Angeles.He now lives in Chicago, Illinois. Marshall is best known for his richly worked large acrylic paintings on unstretched canvas that investigate many aspects of modern African American vernacular existence. Whether his subject is the neighbourhood barber shop or beauty salon (De Style [1993] and School of Beauty, School of Culture [2012]) or a look at the promise and reality of contemporary public housing (Better Homes Better Gardens [1994]), his images mix a rough-hewn figural realism with elements of collage, signage, and lively and highly patterned settings. Marshall’s images often suggest populist banners, having scrolled ornate texts and figures looking directly at the viewer. Some of Marshall’s paintings (Our Town [1995]) are concerned with the often under-represented Black middle class, and many employ pictorial strategies derived from self-taught artists. Many of Marshall’s paintings make reference to the 1960s, the period of his own youth and the rise of the civil rights movement. His extended Souvenirs series (1997–98) depicts comfortable middle-class interiors. In each painting of the series, an African American figure with wings is accompanied by lists of significant African Americans of the past and, in two cases, by a banner emblazoned “We mourn our loss” and including portraits of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X.His work can be found in the collections of such institutions as the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, a testament to his efforts to offer more representations of African Americans in art museums.