Judith and Holofernes
Artist
Kehinde Wiley
American, born 1977
Date2012
MediumOil on linen
Dimensionsheight, width, and depth (canvas): 120 × 89 7/8 × 2 in. (304.8 × 228.3 × 5.1 cm)
frame: 130 1/4 × 99 7/8 × 5 in. (330.8 × 253.7 × 12.7 cm)
frame: 130 1/4 × 99 7/8 × 5 in. (330.8 × 253.7 × 12.7 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hanes in honor of Dr. Emily Farnham, by exchange, with funds from Peggy Guggenheim, by exchange, and from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)
Object number2012.6
On View
On viewPublished ReferencesLinda Johnson Dougherty, “New Work from Kehinde Wiley,” in North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Winter 2013), 20, illus. (color) 21.
Naomi Beckwith, “An Economy of Grace” catalogue entry in Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic (exhibition catalogue), Eugenie Tsai, ed. (Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum, in association with Delmonico Books·Prestel, 2015), no. 43, illus. (color).
“The Listings,” New York Times (May 15, 2015), illus. in situ (color) C14.
Brian Howe, “Artificer: What the Recent Backlash Against Kehinde Wiley’s Work at NCMA Gets Wrong About Art’s Past and Present,” in Independent Weekly (Durham, NC: March 7, 2018), illus. (color).
Austin Dunlow, OPINION: Conservatives angry about NCMA portrait are willfully ignorant, Technician Online (May 2, 2021), accessed May 4, 2021 http://www.technicianonline.com/opinion/article_f6d6dfe2-abb3-11eb-8dd9-07b45e117826.html
Sayantani Dasgupta, "On Kehinde Wiley's Judith and Holofernes" in “You Are the River: Literature Inspired by the North Carolina Museum of Art,” edited by Helena Feder (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2021), illus (color) 96, 99 (detail).
Eugenie Tsai, ed., Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic (Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum in association with DelMonico Books and Prestel, 2015), illus.Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Sean Kelly Gallery, "An Economy of Grace," May 6-June 16, 2012.
Brooklyn, NY, Brooklyn Museum, “Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic,” February 20–May 24, 2015; Ft. Worth, TX, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, September 20, 2015–January 10, 2016; Seattle, WA, Seattle Art Museum, February 12–May 8, 2016; Richmond, VA, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, June 3–September 5, 2016, no. 43, illus. (color).
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Gentileschi/Wiley: Two Paintings of Judith 400 Years Apart," October 22, 2022–January 15, 2023.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," June 5, 2023-present. Object Rights Statement
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