Artist Kerry James Marshall’s First Commissioned Portrait Captures the Quiet Authority of Renowned Scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

American artist Kerry James Marshall has produced his first-ever formal portrait, choosing to depict the renowned African American scholar and historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr., often known as Skip. The work has been donated to Gates’s alma mater, the University of Cambridge, and is now on public view at Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum.

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