Tag: Harlem Studio Museum
Sunday, March 1st, 2009
Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool at the Studio Museum in Harlem
The painter Barkley L. Hendricks caught not only the mood, but also the dress of black Americans in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Indeed, the subhead of the Studio Museum’s exhibition, “Birth of the Cool,” gives the nod to the development of a style whose casual hipness and intimated militancy marked a generation of African Americans.
