Vignette Suite

Contemporary Art

2005/08

Kerry James Marshall
American, born 1955

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Kerry James Marshall
Title: Vignette Suite
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 2005–2008
Medium: Suite of five paintings: Vignette 2 (2005): acrylic on Plexiglas; Vignette 2.25 (2008); Vignette 2.50 (2008) and Vignette 2.75 (2008): acrylic on polyvinyl; Vignette 3 (2005): acrylic on Plexiglas
Dimensions: Each: 186 × 155 cm (73 1/4 × 61 1/16 in.); 186.1 × 155 cm (73 1/4 × 61 in.)
Credit Line: Through prior gift of Adeline Yates; Benjamin Argile Memorial, Cyrus Hall McCormick, Alfred and May Tiefenbronner Memorial, Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Prize, Pauline Palmer Prize, Broadus James Clarke Memorial, Norman Wait Harris Prize, William H. Bartels Prize, Joyce Van Pilsum, Laura T. Magnuson Acquisition, Ann M. Vielehr Prize, and Ada S. Garrett Prize funds; Flora Mayer Witkowsky Award for American Art; Boles C. and Hyacinth G. Drechney and Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Brower Prize funds; The Municipal Art League Prize for Portraiture; Marjorie and Louis Susman, Martin B. Cahn Prize, and Elisabeth Mathews funds
Reference Number: 2008.481.1-5

Okwui Enwezor, Nav Haq, Dieter Roelstraete, Sofie Vermeiren, Kerry James Marshall: Painting and Other Stuff, exh. cat. (Antwerpen: Ludion, 2013), 134, 135-139 (color ills.).
Catharina Manchanda, ed., Lowery Stokes Sims, and Jacqueline Francis, Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas, exh. cat. (New Haven: Published by the Seattle Art Museum, in association with the Yale University Press, 2018), 16, 18, 43, 62, cat. 14, 63 (color ill.), 64, cat. 15 (color ill.), 64, cat. 16 (color ill.), 65, cat. 17 (color ill.), 65, cat. 18 (color ill.), 92, 93.
Luc Tuymans, ed., Sanguine: Luc Tuymans on Baroque, exh. cat. (Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2018), 48, 56, 113 (color ill), 114 (color ill.), 115 (color ill.), 204.
Elena Filipovic, Kerry James Marshall: Inside/Out (Köln: Walther König, 2019), 26, 28 (color ills.), 29, 88-89.

Antwerp, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Kerry James Marshall: Painting and Other Stuff, Oct. 4, 2013–Feb. 2, 2014, no cat. no.; Copenhagen, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Feb. 28–May 4, 2014; Barcelona, Fondació Antoni Tàpies, June 11–Oct. 26, 2014; Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, June 13–oct. 26, 2014.
Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas, Febr. 15–May 13, 2018, no cat. no.
Milan, Fondazione Prada, Sanguine: Luc Tuymans on Baroque, Oct. 18, 2018–Feb. 25, 2019, no cat. no. (Vignette Suite 2.25, 2.5, and 2.75 only).

The artist; sold through Jack Shainman Gallery, New York [copy of invoice in curatorial object file], to the Art Institute of Chicago, October 13, 2008.

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