The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of March 28, 2024
Unite
1969, printed 1971
(American, 1938–2017)
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
Location: not on view
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.- 1971-2010Studio of the artist [1938-2017], Chicagoabout 2010-2021(Lusenhop Fine Art, Chicago, [now Cleveland], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)2021-Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Women in Print: Recent Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 16-June 19, 2022).
- {{cite web|title=Unite|url=false|author=Barbara Jones-Hogu|year=1969, printed 1971|access-date=28 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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