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accession number:	2019.35
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.35
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Satisfied Man, 2015. Kerry James Marshall (American, b. 1955). Woodcut; image: 61 x 46 cm (24 x 18 1/8 in.); sheet: 71 x 56 cm (27 15/16 x 22 1/16 in.); framed: 80 x 62.9 cm (31 1/2 x 24 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchased with funds donated by Scott Mueller 2019.35 © Kerry James Marshall

title:				Satisfied Man
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creation date:			2015
creation date earliest:		2015
creation date latest:		2015
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creditline:			Purchased with funds donated by Scott Mueller
copyright:			© Kerry James Marshall

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culture:	America, 21st century
technique:	woodcut
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Woodcut
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Kerry James Marshall (American, b. 1955)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 61 x 46 cm (24 x 18 1/8 in.); Sheet: 71 x 56 cm (27 15/16 x 22 1/16 in.); Framed: 80 x 62.9 cm (31 1/2 x 24 3/4 in.)
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edition of the work: 	Edition of 15 with 3 AP

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Studio of the artist
	date: 2015-?
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	(Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
	date: after 2015-2019
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2019-
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fun fact:
Marshall used two different layers of heavy dark ink in order to add a distinctive tactile dimension to the print’s surface.

digital description:
<em>Satisfied Man</em> is a woodcut print depicting a happy, fulfilled individual. The work’s subject relates to the figurative iconography in Marshall’s widely celebrated paintings. As the artist explains, “it has become clear to me that few images circulate in art of self-satisfied Black subjects. No trauma, no anxiety, not stoic, not an image of dignity, just satisfied.”

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Marshall, Kerry James, Terrie Sultan, and Gary Sangster. Kerry James Marshall: Telling Stories : Selected Paintings. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, 1994.
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	Molesworth, Helen. “Project America: Kerry James Marshall.” <em>Frieze</em> 40 (May 1998)
	page number: 	p. 72-75
	url:		https://frieze.com/article/project-america.

	Marshall, Kerry James and Calvin Reid. “Kerry James Marshall.” <em>Bomb </em>no. 62 (Winter 1998)
	page number: 	p. 40-47
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	Sinaiko, Eve, ed. <em>Kerry James Marshall</em>. Exh. Cat. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2000
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	Oral history interview with Kerry James Marshall, 2008 August 8. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
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	Bartles, Kathleen S. and Jeff Wall. <em>Kerry James Marshall</em>. Exh. Cat. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 2010.
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	De Watcher, Ellen Mara and Kerry James Marshall. “What You See.” <em>Frieze</em> 160 (Jan.-Feb. 2014)
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	url:		https://frieze.com/article/what-you-see

	Erickson, Peter. “In the Tower: Kerry James Marshall.” <em>Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art </em>32 (Spring 2014)
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	Marshall, Kerry James, Nav Haq, Okwui Enwezor, Dieter Roelstraete, and Sofie Vermeiren. Kerry James Marshall: Painting and Other Stuff. 2014.
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	Marshall, Kerry James, Robert Storr, and Angela Choon. Kerry James Marshall: Look See. 2015.
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	Marshall, Kerry James, Helen Anne Molesworth, Ian Alteveer, Dieter Roelstraete, and Lanka Tattersall. Kerry James Marshall: Mastry. 2016.
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	Gaines, Charles, et al. <em>Kerry James Marshall</em>. London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 2017
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	Marshall, Kerry James, Reto Thüring, and Emily Liebert. Kerry James Marshall: Works on Paper. 2018.
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