Barkley L. Hendricks Two! Paddle Ball Game

This paddle ball is inspired by Hendricks’s early body of work, “Basketball paintings,” a series created in the late 1960s.

This series dived into Hendricks’s abstract exploration of basketball. 

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9 × 1.5 in.
 

Barkley L. Hendricks 
Two!, 1966-1967
Oil on linen 
44 inches 
© Barkley L. Hendricks. Courtesy of the Estate of Barkley L. Hendricks and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York