id:			290457
accession number:	2016.268
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2016.268
updated:		2020-06-18 09:02:34.968000

Heritage, 1973. Wadsworth Jarrell (American, b. 1929). Acrylic, metal foil, cotton canvas; overall: 120.7 x 76.2 cm (47 1/2 x 30 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2016.268 © Wadsworth Jarrell

title:				Heritage
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creation date:			1973
creation date earliest:		1973
creation date latest:		1973
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creditline:			Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
copyright:			© Wadsworth Jarrell

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technique:	acrylic, metal foil, cotton canvas
department:	Contemporary Art
collection:	CONTEMP - Painting
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Wadsworth Jarrell (American, b. 1929) 

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measurements: Overall: 120.7 x 76.2 cm (47 1/2 x 30 in.)
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	inscription:	Signed and dated in acrylic in lower right
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Heritage: Wadsworth and Jae Jarrell
	opening date:   2017-11-21T05:00:00
	<i>Heritage: Wadsworth and Jae Jarrell</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 21, 2017-February 25, 2018).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Collection of the artist
	date: 1973-?
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	Private collector, Atlanta, GA, acquired directly from the artist
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	Private collector, Atlanta, GA, consigned for sale at Swann Auction Galleries
	date: 1973 - 2016
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	(Swann Auction Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: 2016
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2016 -
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fun fact: 
Look closely to find the words “African Rhythm; Our Heritage” and “Black Funk; Preserve Our Music” emerging from the musicians’ heads.

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Wadsworth Jarrell became internationally known in the early 1970s as a founder and leading figure of AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists). Founded in Chicago in the late 1960s the artist collective was heavily tied to the Black Arts Movement—the aesthetic branch of the Black Power movement of the 1960s and ’70s. This painting shows two jazz musicians exuberantly playing their instruments; their bodies are composed of letters and dots of color, and phrases like <em>African Rhythm Our Heritage </em>and<em> Black Funk</em> emerge from the vibrant composition. With vivid colors, the prominent use of language, the integration of collage elements, and the explicit references to jazz music as fundamental to African American culture, <em>Heritage</em> contains the most crucial aspects of AfriCOBRA’s common aesthetic and moral principles.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Jarrell, Wadsworth A.<em> AFRICOBRA: Experimental Art toward a School of Thought</em>. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020
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