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Barkley L. Hendricks: Cool Cat Royalty

Barkley L. Hendrick’s portrait subjects are the embodiment of style and confidence. The way these beautiful people take up space will make you blush and your heart skip like a thirteen-year-old girl. Hendrick’s life sized portraits will most likely crowd your home (and run you tens of thousands of dollars), but you can get affordable…

Samara Gation
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Barkley L. Hendrick’s portrait subjects are the embodiment of style and confidence. The way these beautiful people take up space will make you blush and your heart skip like a thirteen-year-old girl.

Hendrick’s life sized portraits will most likely crowd your home (and run you tens of thousands of dollars), but you can get affordable smaller prints on Etsy or The Studio Museum in Harlem .

By Samara Gation

Barkley L. Hendricks, Tuff Tony, 1978 (P.C. Swann Auction Galleries)

Clockwise from top left: Barkley L. Hendricks, Photo Bloke, 2016 (P.C. New Orleans Museum of Art); Stanley, 1971 (P.C. Mutual Art); Slick, 1977 (P.C. Art News); Brenda’s Sister, Barbara Jean, 1977 (P.C. Daily Commune); George Jules Taylor, 1972 (P.C. National Gallery of Art)

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