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No Idling (Study)
2021 · Acrylic paint with tape, over pencil on drafting film (synthetic polymer sheet)
43 3/4 × 57 1/4 in. (111.1 × 145.4 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Hurvin Anderson
1965
PaintingContemporary
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10
Works in Collection
27
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Hurvin Anderson | Tate Britain
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Hurvin Anderson
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Hurvin Anderson paints barbershops, tropical landscapes, and domestic interiors in oil, building each canvas through layered veils of color that soften spatial certainty without dissolving it. His Jamaican heritage shapes the recurring motifs, particularly the barbershop as a site of Black social life, rendered with a quietness that is structural rather than incidental. Work by Anderson is held in the collection of Tate, London.
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