Swann Galleries - African-American Fine Art - Sale 2424, October 6, 2016

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85 ● BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - )
UNITE.
Color screenprint, 1971. 572x768 mm; 221/2x301/2 inches, wide margins. Violet ink stamped
“AfriCOBRA, Print $10, Copyright 1971,” lower left.
UNITE is a striking example of the work by the artist collaborative AfriCOBRA in Chicago. Having
worked together on the mural The Wall of Respect, Barbara Jones-Hogu and her contemporaries
wanted to establish a revolutionary but representational style that could 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 screenprints such as this. Schmidt Campbell p. 57. [3,000/5,000]