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BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017) Sketch for "Rise and Take Control".
Color pencil on cream wove paper, circa 1970. 279x216 mm; 11x8 1/2 inches, with a perforated left edge. Estate inventory number in pencil, lower edge verso.
Provenance: the estate of the artist.
This fascinating sketchbook drawing by Barbara Jones-Hogu is a prepartory study for her screenprint of the same title (see lot 51). Here, Jones-Hogu includes more text taken from the 1942 poem For My People by Margaret Walker.
Other examples of her sketchbook drawings are illustrated in Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Faheem Majeed, Zoé Whitley, and Rebecca Zorach,Barbara Jones-Hogu: Resist, Relate, Unite,, pp. 12-17.
