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BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017) God's Child.
Color screenprint on Arches 88 paper, 2009. 596x366 mm; 23 1/2x14 inches, full margins. Signed, titled and numbered 25/30 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Thomas Lucas of Hummingbird Press, Chicago, with the blindstamp, lower margin. Published by Lusenhop Fine Art, Chicago.
Additional impressions are in the permanent collections of the Studio Museum in Harlem, the DePaul Art Museum, the Chazen Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami.
Illustrated: Jeffreen N. Hayes, AFRICOBRA: Messages to the People, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, with Gregory R. Miller & Co., p. 7.
God's Child was the first screenprint made by Jones-Hogu in over thirty years, after having stopped making prints in the mid-1970s. The work depicts the artist as a young girl, and includes the distinctive, stylized lettering that Jones-Hogu featured in many of her AfriCOBRA prints.
