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BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - )
UNITE
.
Color screenprint, 1971. 570x762 mm; 22
1
/
2
x30 inches, wide margins. Signed by the artist and by
fellow AfriCOBRA artists, Gerald Williams, Napolean Henderson, Carolyn Mims Lawrence, Jae
Jarrell, Howard Mallory, and Nelson Stevens (with one unidentified signature) in ink, lower margin.
Violet ink stamped “AfriCOBRA, Print #10, Copyright 1971,” lower left.
Unite
is a wonderful example of early work of this artist collaborative in Chicago. Having worked
together on the mural
TheWall of Respect
, Barbara Jones-Hogu and her contemporaries artists wanted
to establish a revolutionary but representational style that be accessible to a wide urban audience.
The Coalition of Black Revolutionary Artists (COBRA) soon became the African Commune of
Bad Relevant Artists (AfriCOBRA). Between 1968 and 1973, the group organized exhibitions at
the Studio Museum in Harlem and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and published large,
colorful prints such as this. Schmidt Campbell p. 57.
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