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Untitled (Studio)

2014
Not on view
Marshall often recounts an episode from his summer course at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles after seventh grade, when he visited the studio of his childhood idol Charles White (1918–1979). It was the first time Marshall had seen an artist’s workspace in person and also the moment he realized that making pictures was something he, too, could do. Untitled (Studio) is in part about that discovery of a Black artist’s workshop—a place of labor where an allegorical catalogue of all modes of art making is on display. At the same time, it is also a majestic ode to the job of the artist, the history of painting, and the multiple possibilities that still pump through the heart of its practice.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Untitled (Studio)
  • Artist: Kerry James Marshall (American, born Birmingham, Alabama, 1955)
  • Date: 2014
  • Medium: Acrylic on PVC panels
  • Dimensions: 83 5/16 × 119 1/4 in . (211.6 × 302.9 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Purchase, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation Gift, Acquisitions Fund and The Metropolitan Museum of Art Multicultural Audience Development Initiative Gift, 2015
  • Object Number: 2015.366
  • Rights and Reproduction: © Kerry James Marshall
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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