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Satisfied Man

Satisfied Man

2015
(American, b. 1955)
Image: 61 x 46 cm (24 x 18 1/8 in.); Sheet: 71 x 56 cm (27 15/16 x 22 1/16 in.); Framed: 80 x 62.9 cm (31 1/2 x 24 3/4 in.)
© Kerry James Marshall

Did You Know?

Marshall used two different layers of heavy dark ink in order to add a distinctive tactile dimension to the print’s surface.

Description

Satisfied Man is a woodcut print depicting a happy, fulfilled individual. The work’s subject relates to the figurative iconography in Marshall’s widely celebrated paintings. As the artist explains, “it has become clear to me that few images circulate in art of self-satisfied Black subjects. No trauma, no anxiety, not stoic, not an image of dignity, just satisfied.”
  • 2015-?
    Studio of the artist
    after 2015-2019
    (Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
    2019-
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Marshall, Kerry James, Terrie Sultan, and Gary Sangster. Kerry James Marshall: Telling Stories : Selected Paintings. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, 1994.
    Molesworth, Helen. “Project America: Kerry James Marshall.” Frieze 40 (May 1998) p. 72-75 frieze.com
    Marshall, Kerry James and Calvin Reid. “Kerry James Marshall.” Bomb no. 62 (Winter 1998) p. 40-47
    Sinaiko, Eve, ed. Kerry James Marshall. Exh. Cat. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2000
    Oral history interview with Kerry James Marshall, 2008 August 8. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
    Bartles, Kathleen S. and Jeff Wall. Kerry James Marshall. Exh. Cat. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 2010.
    De Watcher, Ellen Mara and Kerry James Marshall. “What You See.” Frieze 160 (Jan.-Feb. 2014) frieze.com
    Erickson, Peter. “In the Tower: Kerry James Marshall.” Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 32 (Spring 2014) p. 11-23
    Marshall, Kerry James, Nav Haq, Okwui Enwezor, Dieter Roelstraete, and Sofie Vermeiren. Kerry James Marshall: Painting and Other Stuff. 2014.
    Marshall, Kerry James, Robert Storr, and Angela Choon. Kerry James Marshall: Look See. 2015.
    Marshall, Kerry James, Helen Anne Molesworth, Ian Alteveer, Dieter Roelstraete, and Lanka Tattersall. Kerry James Marshall: Mastry. 2016.
    Gaines, Charles, et al. Kerry James Marshall. London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 2017
    Marshall, Kerry James, Reto Thüring, and Emily Liebert. Kerry James Marshall: Works on Paper. 2018.
  • New Narratives: Contemporary Works on Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 19, 2023-April 14, 2024).
  • {{cite web|title=Satisfied Man|url=false|author=Kerry James Marshall|year=2015|access-date=25 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2019.35