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CLEVELAND BELLOW (1946 - 2009) Catch a Southern Beauty.
Screenprint and collage on coated paper, circa 1970. 610x508 mm; 24x20 inches (sheet). Signed and titled in pencil, upper sheet edge.
Provenance: the Melvin Holmes collection, San Francisco; private collection.
This Pop art image is a scarce early and unique 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.
