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Unite

1969, printed 1971

Barbara Jones-Hogu

(American, 1938–2017)
Culture
America
Medium
color screenprint
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.)
Credit Line
Karl B. Goldfield Trust 2021.14
Edition
Edition of 100
Copyright
© Barbara Jones-Hogu
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

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.

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. 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.
A horizontally oriented print depicts a crowd of stylized people 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 of red, blue, beige, and purple. The letters are 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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