id:			438261
accession number:	2021.37
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.37
updated:		2022-10-29 18:09:42.815000

Untitled (Land Where My Father Died), 1968. Barbara Jones-Hogu (American, 1938–2017). Color screenprint; image: 45.7 x 50.8 cm (18 x 20 in.); sheet: 51.4 x 73.2 cm (20 1/4 x 28 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of David Lusenhop in honor of the artist 2021.37 © Barbara Jones-Hogu

title:				Untitled (Land Where My Father Died)
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creation date:			1968
creation date earliest:		1968
creation date latest:		1968
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creditline:			Gift of David Lusenhop in honor of the artist
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: 45.7 x 50.8 cm (18 x 20 in.); Sheet: 51.4 x 73.2 cm (20 1/4 x 28 13/16 in.)
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edition of the work: 	Edition of 10

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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: 1968-2017
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	Estate of the artist
	date: 2017-2021
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	(Lusenhop Fine Art, Chicago, [now Cleveland], given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
	date: 2021
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2021-
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fun fact: 
In an interview, Barbara Jones-Hogu described the inspiration for this print, saying that “I feel that racism and fascism played a great [role] in my father[‘s] life, so some of these prints’ ideas and content deal with the fact that we and he were not really free to do whatever we and he really wanted to do and could do due to radical oppression and suppression.”

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. This print is one of several created around this time in which the artist represented a crowd of Black men with fists raised—here, against an abstracted city setting. In creating the image, Jones-Hogu was inspired by political protests in Chicago that year, as well as the death of her own father and her reflection on the role that racism had played in his life.

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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