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GAYLORD HASSAN (ND)
Free Huey
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Oil on cotton canvas, 1968. 457x356 mm; 18x14 inches. Signed in oil, lower left recto; signed in
Arabic in oil, lower right recto. Signed, titled and dated in ink on the verso.
Provenance: private Arizona collection.
Gaylord Hassan was a founding member of theWeusi Artist Collective. Formed in Harlem in 1965,
using the Swahili word for “blackness,” it was described by fellow collective member Ademola
Olugebefola as “the philosophy of black art for black people.” Gaylord Hassan, born in Harlem,
studied at Pratt Institute and Bob Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop. Today he is a painter,
printmaker, potter and teacher. Hassan’s work has been featured in exhibitions at the Brooklyn
Museum of Art, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, the Studio Museum in
Harlem, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, all NewYork.
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