id: 417476 accession number: 2020.435.1 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.435.1 updated: 2022-07-01 09:00:36.519000 Rythm Mastr: Bulletin!, 1999-2000. Kerry James Marshall (American, b. 1955), published by Carnegie Museum of Art. Artist's newspaper; image: 41 x 24.6 cm (16 1/8 x 9 11/16 in.); sheet: 43 x 29.1 cm (16 15/16 x 11 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Joan Tomkins and William Busta 2020.435.1 title: Bulletin! title in original language: series: Rythm Mastr series in original language: creation date: 1999-2000 creation date earliest: 1999 creation date latest: 2000 current location: creditline: Gift of Joan Tomkins and William Busta copyright: --- culture: America;Pittsburgh, PA technique: Artist's newspaper department: Prints collection: Prints type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Kerry James Marshall (American, b. 1955) - artist * Carnegie Museum of Art - publisher --- measurements: Image: 41 x 24.6 cm (16 1/8 x 9 11/16 in.); Sheet: 43 x 29.1 cm (16 15/16 x 11 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: Kerry James Marshall’s childhood fascination with Marvel Comics and specifically the Black Panther led him to create this graphic novelette featuring a Black superhero set within his native South Side Chicago. digital description: Inspired by his childhood fascination with Marvel Comics, the artist Kerry James Marshall set out to create a modern-day, black superhero. The story of Rythm Mastr centers around the eponymous superhero character and his protégé Farrell and is set within the context of the controversial razing of public housing projects in the South Side of Chicago (near Marshall’s home) and increased violence in the city. The two main characters have the power to bring Egyptian and African statues to life at the museum and imbue them with superpowers akin to the seven gods of the Yoruba pantheon. The characters debate intellectual history, philosophy, and politics in Black vernacular English—offering up an alternative reality for Marshall’s South Side Chicago neighborhood that combines past, present, and future. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES