Mixed media and collage on heavy wove paper, 1970-71. 610x457 mm; 24x18 inches. Signed and dated '69 in gouache, lower left.
Provenance: Ex-collection the artist; Thomas Matthias, Grinnell Collection; Archibald Arts, New York.
Exhibited: Black Art: Ancestral Legacy, Dallas Museum of Arts, The Virginia Museum of Fine Art, High Museum of Atlanta, traveling exhibition, 1989-1990.
Illustrated: Black Art: Ancestral Legacy, Dallas Museum of Arts, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1989, p. 209.
Ademola's work demonstrates the experimentation in collage and Afro-centric themes in painting in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The artist and jazz musician has a wide influence in the Harlem art scene with his graphic and illustrative arts in addition to his painting and drawing.
