Apr 22, 2021 - Sale 2565

Sale 2565 - Lot 84

Price Realized: $ 18,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017)
Land Where My Father Died.

Color screenprint on buff wove paper, 1968. 775x578 mm; 30 1/2 x 22 3/4 inches, full margins. Signed "Barbara J. Jones", titled, dated and numbered 3/5 in pencil, lower margin.

Provenance: the artist; Williams Jones, Chicago (gift from the artist to her brother); private collection.

Illustrated: Barbara Wildholm, Rebecca Zorach, Zoe Whitley and Faheem Majeed. Baraba Jones-Hogu: Resist, Relate, Unite, fig. 1, p. 76.

Other impressions of this rare, early screenprint by AfriCOBRA founder Barbara Jones-Hogu are in the collection of the Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin, and the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago. Other public collections that hold her prints include the Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and Tate Modern, London.