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Artist Barkley L. Hendricks poses with then-curator Trevor Schoonmaker during the opening night reception for the exhibition Barkley Hendricks: Birth of the Cool at the Nasher Museum in 2008. Photo by Duke Photography.
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Barkley L. Hendricks listened to jazz while painting and working in his studio
Barkley L. Hendricks listened to jazz while painting and working in his studio. Here he poses with various works including Bahsir (Robert Gowens) a 1975 painting that is part of the Nasher Museum’s collection. © Barkley L. Hendricks; courtesy of the Estate of Barkley L. Hendricks and Jack Shainman, New York.

We invite you to listen to a dedicated playlist created by Nasher Museum Director Trevor Schoonmaker. Each song connects with a specific painting in the exhibition Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick. Trevor, a longtime collaborator and friend of the artist, organized the first career retrospective of Hendricks’s paintings at the Nasher Museum in 2008. The playlist includes a bonus track in honor of Barkley, Trevor says, “and an outro to send everyone off with a smile.” Listen here.

View Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the CoolBarkley L. Hendricks painted this triptych, Bahsir (Robert Gowens), in 1975. A male figure is depicted in three standing poses.
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Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool

February 07 – July 13, 2008

The Nasher Museum presented the first career retrospective of American artist Barkley L. Hendricks’ paintings, an exhibition featured on the cover of Artforum magazine and highlighted in Vogue magazine’s ...

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