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Day 2: Kehinde Wiley

In the 10 years since receiving his Master of Fine Arts from Yale University, Kehinde Wiley has catapulted to the upper echelon of the contemporary art world. His super-realistic paintings of men of color in heroic, majestic, or bucolic settings deliberately reference works by the Old Masters.

Kehinde Wiley slideshow

Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps, 1800, Oil-on-canvas, 261 cm × 221 cm (102⅓ in × 87 in), Château de Malmaison, Rueil-Malmaison. Kehinde Wiley, Napoleon Leading the Army Over the Alps, 2005, Oil on canvas, 9 x 9 feet.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne, 1806, Oil on canvas; 102 x 63 3/4 in. (259 x 162 cm), Musée de l'Armée, Paris (5420). Kehinde Wiley, Ice T, 2005, Oil on canvas, 243.8 x 182.9 cm (96 x 72 in), Private collection, courtesy Rhona Hoffman Gallery, © Kehinde Wiley.
Peter Paul Rubens, Equestrian Portrait of King Philip II of Spain, c.1635, Oil on canvas, 255.9 x 220.3 cm, Purchased by Frederick, Prince of Wales, The Royal Collection © 2011, RCIN 404392. Kehinde Wiley, Equestrian Portrait of King Philip II, 2009, Oil on canvas, Private collection.

30 Americans is organized by the Rubell Family Collection, Miami. The presenting sponsor at the Corcoran Gallery of Art is Altria Group.

Additional support has been provided by Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.



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