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Untitled (Exquisite Corpse Snowman)
Untitled (Exquisite Corpse Snowman)
2022
Kerry James Marshall
(American, b. 1955)
Ink and watercolor on paper
Sheet: 60.8 x 47.8 cm (23 15/16 x 18 13/16 in.)
Gift of Agnes Gund 2023.7
© Kerry James Marshall
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This drawing is one of numerous paintings, prints, and drawings that Kerry James Marshall created on the theme of Exquisite Corpse beginning in 2021.
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For over forty years, Kerry James Marshall has mined the history of painting to address its omission of Black subjects. This drawing belongs to a series based on Exquisite Corpse, a parlor game popular among 1920s Surrealist artists in which participants contribute to a drawing without knowing its subject or appearance. Marshall’s composition features three levels presenting the politician Shirley Chisholm, a snowman, and a fashionably dressed woman with a tiny dog in her bag. Together, they seem intended to serve as a reflection on Black female identity. Marshall specifically avoided providing his own interpretation, leaving each viewer to bring their own meaning to the work.
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