Barkley L. Hendricks

This definitive boxed set chronicles the vast and storied career of Barkley L. Hendricks.

This five-volume boxed set concludes the colossal ongoing study of American painter Barkley L. Hendricks' oeuvre, punctuated by a new, comprehensive 300-page monograph that captures the artist's full evolution. Alongside this sweeping new survey, the collection includes redesigned editions of four previously published books: Works on Paper, Landscape Paintings, Basketball Paintings and Photography.

Barkley L. Hendricks (1945-2017) was born in Philadelphia and trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Yale. His life-size paintings of everyday Black Americans have inspired generations of artists. Hendricks gave up painting in favor of photography, but returned to oil portraits later in life. He taught at Connecticut College from 1972 until 2010.