id:			438260
accession number:	2021.14
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.14
updated:		2023-08-24 01:44:47.287000

Unite, 1969, printed 1971. Barbara Jones-Hogu (American, 1938–2017). Color screenprint; image: 56.9 x 76.7 cm (22 3/8 x 30 3/16 in.); sheet: 64.7 x 84.1 cm (25 1/2 x 33 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Karl B. Goldfield Trust 2021.14 © Barbara Jones-Hogu

title:				Unite
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creation date:			1969, printed 1971
creation date earliest:		1969
creation date latest:		1969
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creditline:			Karl B. Goldfield Trust
copyright:			© Barbara Jones-Hogu

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culture:	America
technique:	color screenprint
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Screenprint
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Barbara Jones-Hogu (American, 1938–2017)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 56.9 x 76.7 cm (22 3/8 x 30 3/16 in.); Sheet: 64.7 x 84.1 cm (25 1/2 x 33 1/8 in.)
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edition of the work: 	Edition of 100

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inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed, in black ink, at lower right; stamped, in black ink, at lower left, with the AfriCOBRA symbol, price and the date: Print $10 Copyright © 1971
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Women in Print: Recent Acquisitions
	opening date:   2022-01-16T05:00:00
	<i>Women in Print: Recent Acquisitions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 16-June 19, 2022).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Studio of the artist [1938-2017], Chicago
	date: 1971-2010
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	(Lusenhop Fine Art, Chicago, [now Cleveland], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
	date: about 2010-2021
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2021-
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fun fact:
Barbara Jones-Hogu began to work primarily in screenprint, the technique used here, after the tools she used to make woodcuts were stolen while she was a student in Chicago.

digital description:
Barbara Jones-Hogu was a founding member of AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists), a Chicago-based artists’ collective founded in 1968 to forge a distinctly Black form of contemporary art. <em>Unite</em> is among the group’s most recognizable images and features a crowd with fists raised in the Black Power salute. Jones-Hogu was struck by the potential of this simple gesture to unify. An accomplished and innovative screenprinter, she produced the layered forms of color and text for each impression herself.

wall description:
These prints are two of several in which Barbara Jones-Hogu represented a crowd with fists raised. A founding member of AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists), a collective formed in 1968 to forge a distinctly Black form of contemporary art, Jones-Hogu was an accomplished screenprinter. In the earlier print, she was inspired by political protests in Chicago while reflecting on the role racism played in her father’s life, after his death around that same time. <em>Unite,</em> her best-known image, was created after Jones-Hogu saw the Black Power salute carried out by two athletes at the 1968 Summer Olympics and was struck by its power to unify.
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