1st Row Tables for 2. Study for Untitled (Club Scene)
Kerry James Marshall
American, born 1955
2013
A transparentized-paper study in felt-tip pen and pencil that lays out tables, booths, and perspective lines for a planned club-scene painting.
What strikes you is the crisp, architectural perspective—thin, converging pencil and felt‑tip lines anchored by a single red horizon and annotated in green, making the translucent sheet read like both blueprint and rehearsal.
The drawing reveals Kerry James Marshall’s meticulous planning—using modernist perspective and studio diagramming to stage and center communal Black interiors within the history of contemporary painting.
Medium
Felt-tip pen and pencil on transparentized paper
Dimensions
15 1/8 × 23 7/8" (38.4 × 60.6 cm)
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Department
Credit
Gift of the artist and Jack Shainman
Accession
1141.2018
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