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Unite

1969, printed 1971
(American, 1938–2017)
America
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.)
Karl B. Goldfield Trust 2021.14
© Barbara Jones-Hogu
Edition: Edition of 100
Location: not on view
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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.

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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. Unite 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.
Print with a crowd of stylized figures with medium-dark skin tones raising their fists in the air, everything but their arms and faces shadowed in black. In the background, fractured overlays of the word "UNITED" in all capital, block letters overlay in combinations red, blue, yellow, and purple, the letters smaller on one side and wider on the other in triangular shards.

Unite

1969, printed 1971

Barbara Jones-Hogu

(American, 1938–2017)
America

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