The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of March 25, 2024
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
Location: 101A Prints & Drawings
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 artistafter 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.comMarshall, Kerry James and Calvin Reid. “Kerry James Marshall.” Bomb no. 62 (Winter 1998) p. 40-47Sinaiko, Eve, ed. Kerry James Marshall. Exh. Cat. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2000Oral history interview with Kerry James Marshall, 2008 August 8. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian InstitutionBartles, 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.comErickson, Peter. “In the Tower: Kerry James Marshall.” Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 32 (Spring 2014) p. 11-23Marshall, 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., 2017Marshall, 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).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2019.35