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GERALD WILLIAMS (1941 - ) Wake Up.
Color screenprint on wove paper, 1971. 1026x705 mm; 40 3/8x 28 3/4 inches.
Exhibited (another impression): The Time is Now: Art Worlds of Chicago's South Side, 1960-1980, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, September 13 – December 30, 2018.
Illustrated (another impression): Marissa H. Baker and Rebecca Zorach, The Time is Now: Art Worlds of Chicago's South Side, 1960-1980, p. 71
Gerald Williams was a founding member of the art collective AfriCOBRA in 1968. Wake Up is the largest of the six screenprints published and printed by AfriCOBRA in 1971. Other impressions of this work are in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum and the Tate Modern, London.
