Charles I
- Depicted
- Ashley Cooper, American, born 1987
- Date
- 2018
- Material
- Oil on linen
- made in
- Beijing, Beijing Shi municipality, China, Asia
- associated with
- Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Paintings
- Collection
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 238
- Dimensions
- 96 × 72 in. (243.8 × 182.9 cm)
- Credit Line
- Funds given by Gary C. Werths and Richard Frimel, Barbara and Andy Taylor, Anabeth and John Weil, John and Susan Horseman, Nancy and Kenneth Kranzberg, Michael and Noémi Neidorff, David Obedin and Clare Davis, Adrienne D. Davis, Yvette Drury Dubinsky and John Paul Dubinsky, Mrs. Barbara S. Eagleton, Hope Edison, Roxanne H. Frank, Rosalyn and Charles Lowenhaupt, Jack and Susan Musgrave, Dr. and Mrs. E. Robert Schultz, Susan and David Sherman III, Pam and Greg Trapp, Mark S. Weil and Joan Hall-Weil, Keith H. Williamson, and the Third Wednesday Group
- Rights
- © 2019 Kehinde Wiley, Courtesy of the Saint
Louis Art Museum and Roberts Projects - Object Number
- 27:2019
NOTES
St. Louisan Ashley Cooper stands with one hand on her hip in front of a vibrant floral backdrop that winds in front of and around her. Cooper’s pose is based on the stance of Charles I of England in a 1633 portrait by Dutch painter Daniel Mytens I in the Museum’s collection. Artist Kehinde Wiley uses the long‑standing practice of portraiture to address absences and erasures of black individuals in European and American art history. In his paintings, Wiley replaces white figures depicted in historical artworks with images of contemporary African Americans, Africans, and people of the African diaspora. In 2017, Wiley visited neighborhoods in north St. Louis and Ferguson, Missouri, where he selected Cooper and other individuals to pose for his paintings.
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