(ART) Rebuttal to Whitney Museum Exhibition

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(ART.) Rebuttal to Whitney Museum Exhibition. Printed invitation, 4 oblong pages (5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches) on one folding sheet; minimal staining. New York, 6 April [1971]

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An exhibition of 75 Black artists was planned at the Whitney for April 1971, but faced with a lack of collaboration, 15 of the artists withdrew in observance of a boycott called by the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition. This invitation advertises a separate exhibit held by the withdrawn artists at Acts of Art Gallery, which included well-known figures such as Sam Gilliam and Roy de Carava. It includes an explanation by Acts of Art owner Nigel Jackson. The image in this invitation is of a wire sculpture by James Denmark titled "Head of an Invisible King."