# Kerry James Marshall artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:26:02.318Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1955-10-17
- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting

## About Kerry James Marshall

Kerry James Marshall, born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1955, is an American artist, painter, and professor. He moved to South Central Los Angeles during childhood and later established much of his career in Chicago, where he formerly taught painting at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Marshall is especially known for paintings that place Black figures at the center of the composition. The available sources identify him principally through his practice, subject matter, and teaching career rather than through a single named movement. Collectors encounter his name across museum and authority databases as well as in public auction listings. For appraisal and entity matching, his full name, 1955 birth year, American identity, painting practice, and association with depictions of Black figures provide the strongest documented signals in the current source pack.

## Common works and media

Paintings are the clearly documented work type in the supplied sources, particularly figurative works depicting Black subjects. The source pack does not establish a dependable category breakdown for prints, editions, sculptures, drawings, posters, or other media. Such objects should therefore be classified from their own cataloguing, inscriptions, materials, and attribution evidence rather than assigned to a category by assumption.

## Market and appraisal context

The current Appraisily source pack associates 175 catalogued auction records with Kerry James Marshall, but that count should not be treated as a price forecast or proof of a market trend. Relevant comparisons should be selected at the individual-object level, beginning with work type, medium, subject matter, attribution, and identity match. Where auction records provide them, sale date, realized price, and comparable-lot context can help establish a defensible reference set. This source pack does not include the records needed to assess dimensions, condition, provenance, creation date, edition status, or direct comparability, so those details require separate verification before an appraisal conclusion is formed.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q832432
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_James_Marshall
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_James_Marshall
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500116210
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96542899/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00000342
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/kerry-james-marshall/