CLEVELAND BELLOW (1946 - 2009) Catch a Southern Beauty.
Screenprint and collage on coated paper, 1972. 610x508 mm; 24x20 inches (sheet). Signed and dated "72" in pencil, upper right. Titled and numbered 38/300 in pencil, upper left.
Provenance: acquired directly from the artist, private collection, New York.
This striking Pop art image is an early work of art by Cleveland Bellow, a central figure in the Bay Area art scene of the 1960s and 1970s. Recently, his artwork was included in the traveling exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power organized by the Tate Modern, London. The woman depicted in the artwork is Adrienne McGee, a girlfriend of the artist at the time.
