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ALVIN CARL HOLLINGSWORTH (1928 - 2000) Trapped.
Oil, acrylic and mixed media collage on masonite, 1965. 610x1220 mm; 24x48 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto. Signed in oil on the verso.
Provenance: the artist, New York; Peter and Vivian Jackson, New York; private collection, Florida,with the labels on the frame paper backing.
In this striking early example from his Cry City series, Hollingsworth incorporates collage and painted assemblage with a strong social realist content. The artist showed 26 paintings from his Cry City series at Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York in 1965. Hollingsworth was also a member of the Spiral Group, the artist's group founded by Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis and Reginald Gammon in 1964, organized as a response from African-American artists to the Civil Rights movement. Hewitt, p. 8.
