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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
WA-00014362
PaintingContemporary
Representation
None documented
2
Institutional Exhibitions
10
Works in Collection
27
Assets Indexed
4
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
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Authority Records (1)
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Hurvin Anderson | Tate Britain
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Hurvin Anderson
Studio International
Field Verification (3 fields)
1 cross-verified · 2 single-source
- Birth yearArtsy· 92%✓
- NationalityWikidata + Artsy· 92%
- LocationWikidata· 80%
Source Registry (2)
- SothebysTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
- Instagram DiscoveryTier 3 · Scraped/inferred60%
About
Why this artist matters now
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.
Source: Sothebys · Trust score: 100% · Updated 1mo ago
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Contemporary
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Artworks (10)
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Artwork sources (3)
10 published of 10 catalogued · 9 with image
- MoMA8 published8 img
- Tate1 published1 img
- The Met1 published
Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 1)
1 entries · 1 sources
- 2008 · Tate · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
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Representation & Collections
In collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In collection
Tate
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