id:			438262
accession number:	2021.15
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.15
updated:		2023-09-22 11:12:34.736000

Revolutionary, 1972. Wadsworth Jarrell (American, b. 1929). Color screenprint; image: 83.9 x 67.4 cm (33 1/16 x 26 9/16 in.); sheet: 83.9 x 67.4 cm (33 1/16 x 26 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Karl B. Goldfield Trust 2021.15 © Wadsworth Jarrell

title:				Revolutionary
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creation date:			1972
creation date earliest:		1972
creation date latest:		1972
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creditline:			Karl B. Goldfield Trust
copyright:			© Wadsworth Jarrell

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

* Wadsworth Jarrell (American, b. 1929)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 83.9 x 67.4 cm (33 1/16 x 26 9/16 in.); Sheet: 83.9 x 67.4 cm (33 1/16 x 26 9/16 in.)
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edition of the work: 	Edition of 300

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inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed and dated, in pencil, at lower right: Wadsworth A. Jarrell / 1972
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	inscription:	inscribed, in pencil, at lower left: REVOLUTIONARY
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	inscription:	inscribed, in pencil, at bottom center: 52/300
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		New Narratives: Contemporary Works on Paper
	opening date:   2023-11-19T05:00:00
	<i>New Narratives: Contemporary Works on Paper</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 19, 2023-April 14, 2024).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Wadsworth Jarrell [1929-], Cleveland, OH
	date: 1972-2017
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	(Lusenhop Fine Art, Chicago, [now Cleveland], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
	date: 2017-2021
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2021-
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fun fact:
Wadsworth Jarrell reinterpreted the photograph on which this print is based so that Angela Davis wears a fashion design by the artist Jae Jarrell, his wife, entitled <em>Revolutionary Suit</em> (1968).

digital description:
Wadsworth Jarrell 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>Revolutionary</em> features the vibrant tones and rhythmic text-based forms for which he is best known. Reinterpreting a painting of the previous year, the print depicts activist Angela Davis using words and phrases from her speeches, including “revolution” and “Black is beautiful.” Her figure dominates the composition in a way that Jarrell describes as “an attempt to capture the majestic charm, seriousness, and leadership of an astute drum major for freedom.”

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