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Tributes in the picture for a portrait painter

The coming month may prove to be the homecoming Philadelphia-born painter Barkley L. Hendricks has long deserved. Notable for stark, postmodern black-and-proud oil portraits, "Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool" - his first career retrospective, on tour for the last two years - finally opened yesterday at his alma mater, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

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