Author: Andrews, Benny (and) Jessica Brown (and) Connie Choi (and) Kyle Williams
Title: Benny Andrews Portraits: A Real Person Before the Eyes
Description: New York, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, 2020. A quarter fabric casebound book. The fabric is bright orange, and the title is in debossed white lettering down the spine. The front cover has the title printed in red and in beige above a full-color illustration. The headband is yellow and green. The front and back free and pasted end pages are a fabric pattern. The other side of the free end pages are marroon. Pages: (12), 13-188. Profusely illustrated with full-color images. "Benny Andrews: Portraits, A Real Person Before the Eyes traces Andrews' commitment to portraiture throughout his career. Featuring new scholarship by Jessica Bell Brown, Associate Curator for Contemporary Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art; Connie H. Choi, Associate Curator, Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem; and Kyle Williams, Director of the Andrews-Humphrey Family Foundation, this book includes an expanded artist chronology with never-before-published photographs that narrate the life and career of Benny Andrews." Contents are as follows: In excess of realism, Benny Andrews' composites / Jessica Bell Brown -- Benny Andrews and a contemporary Black figurative tradition / Connie H. Choi -- Benny Andrews : collage/me / Kyle Williams -- About the Andrews-Humphrey Family Foundation -- Benny Andrews : portraits, a real person before the eyes [Plates] -- Benny Andrews (1930-2006) : chronology [pages 141-178] -- Benny Andrews (1930-2006) : selected public collections -- Checklist of the exhibition. VG+: Looks like it has never been taken from the shelf.

Keywords: American Art ; Andrews, Benny ; ; American Art


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