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North Philly Niggah (William Corbett)
1975
A man in white occupies a white field with effortless command. The ordinary sitter receives royal scale.
Artist field note
Barkley L. Hendricks
Cool becomes art-historical authority.
Appears inThe Overlooked
The five in one idea
Hendricks gave everyday Black subjects the scale, cool and authority the canon had long reserved for others.