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BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017) Rise and Take Control.
Color screenprint on blue wove paper, 1970. 635x889 mm; 23x35 inches. From the edition of ten or fewer impressions printed by the artist. A certificate of authenticity signed by the artist is included.
Exhibited (other impressions): Barbara Jones-Hogu: Resist, Relate, Unite, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, January 11 - March 25, 2018; AfriCOBRA: Messages to the People. Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, Florida, November 27, 2018 – March 24, 2019; AfriCOBRA: Nation Time. Palazzo Ca' Faccanon, Venice, Italy, May 11 – November 24, 2019.
Illustrated (other impressions): Jeff Donaldson, "10 in Search of a Nation," Black World 19, no. 12 (Oct. 1970), p. 89; Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Faheem Majeed, Zoé Whitley, and Rebecca Zorach,Barbara Jones-Hogu: Resist, Relate, Unite,, p. 66. The article in the nationally distributed Black World magazine, is often called the "AfriCOBRA manifesto".
A superb, richly inked impression of this important and very scarce AfriCOBRA screenprint. The title of this work is adapted from the last verse of the 1942 poem For My People by Margaret Walker. The last verse reads: "Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth. Let a beauty full of healing and a strength of final clenching be the pulsing in our spirits and our blood. Let the martial songs be written, let the dirges disappear. Let a race of men now rise and take control." Other impressions are in the collections of the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
