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CAROLYN MIMS LAWRENCE (1940 - ) Uphold Your Men.
Color screenprint, 1971. 760x610 mm; 30x24 inches, wide margins. Signed by the artist and several AfriCOBRA members, Gerald Williams, Napoleon Henderson, Jae Jarrell, Howard R. Mallory, Jr. and Barbara Jones-Hogu, in pencil, lower margin. Marginal losses, edge tears and adhesive staining outside the image. A very good impression of this very scarce print.
Uphold Your Men is a striking example of screenprints from the AfriCOBRA movement, the artist collaborative in Chicago. Having worked together on the 1967 mural The Wall of Respect, Lawrence and her contemporaries wanted to establish a revolutionary but representational style that would be accessible to a wide urban audience. The Coalition of Black Revolutionary Artists (COBRA) soon became the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists (AfriCOBRA). Between 1968 and 1973, the group organized exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem and the University of Massachussetts, Amherst, and published large, colorful prints such as this. Schmidt Campbell p. 57.
