This winter, The Studio Museum in Harlem on 125th St will be the second stop for the first career retrospective of renowned African-American painter Barkley L. Hendricks (b. 1945). Hendricks was born in Philadelphia, trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Yale University and now lives and works in New London, Connecticut. Hendricks is best known for his life-size portraits of people of color living in urban areas in the 1960s and 70s. This unparalleled exhibition of Hendricks’s paintings will include work from 1964 to the present. Alongside his iconic portraits, "Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool" will feature many of Hendricks’s lesser known, older works, as well as his newest pieces, small plein air studies of the Jamaican landscape.

The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke presented this retrospective. Watch a YouTube video of the exhibit put out by the curatorial staff at Nasher here.

Or, listen to the Nasher Museum's podcast with Curator of Contemporary Art Trevor Schoonmaker, artist Barkley L. Hendricks and others discussing "Barkley Hendricks: Birth of the Cool".

In the NY Times, Benjamin Genocchio describes his visit to Hendricks's New London, CT, studio (article includes slideshow of some artwork).