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American painter

Barkley L. Hendricks (April 16, – April 18, ) was a contemporary American painter who made pioneering contributions to Black portraiture and conceptualism. While he worked in a variety of media and genres throughout his career (from photography to landscape painting), Hendricks' best known work took the form of life-sized painted oil portraits of Black Americans.^[1]

Early life

Born on April 16, , in the North Philadelphia neighborhood of Tioga, Barkley Leonnard Hendricks was the eldest surviving child of Ruby Powell Hendricks and Barkley Herbert Hendricks.

His parents moved to Philadelphia from Halifax County, Virginia, during the Great Migration when large numbers of African-Americans moved out of the rural Southern United States. Hendricks attended Simon Gratz High School and graduated in He attended Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA).^[3] After graduating from PAFA in , Hendricks decided to enlist in the Barkley L.

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