Mar 24, 2022 - Sale 2598

Sale 2598 - Lot 99

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(ART.) Exhibition poster for the Acts of Art Gallery featuring Dindga McCannon and others. Poster, 22 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches; minimal wear and dampstaining, two tack holes at corners. New York, 19 June 1972
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Acts of Art was founded in 1969 as the only gallery in downtown Manhattan run by and for Black artists. This poster features a reproduction of "Slaves, Shackles, and Prods" by Dindga McCannon (a founder of the Where We At: Black Women Artists collective), and the names of other prominent New York Black artists.

We trace no other examples of this poster in OCLC or at auction. Only one other Acts of Art exhibition poster has been traced at auction, for their 1970 "Rebuttal to Whitney Museum Exhibition" show, at Swann on 26 March 2020.