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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Harriet Sherwood Arts and culture correspondent

Kerry James Marshall donates portrait of Henry Louis Gates Jr to Cambridge University

Gates and Marshall stand in front of the painting
Kerry James Marshall’s portrait of Henry Louis Gates Jr, left, is now on public display at the Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge. Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian

The acclaimed African American artist Kerry James Marshall has donated his first formal portrait of a living person to the University of Cambridge.

The painting is of Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr, an alumni of Clare College, Cambridge, to mark the award of an honorary degree in recognition of his outstanding achievements as an author, scholar, historian and film-maker.

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