One People Unite

Work on Paper

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DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

One People Unite

Entry/Object ID

2018.08

Description

gold, green, red & black symmetrical image w/ circular stripes and repeating faces. Text reads "One people unite"

Artwork Details

Medium

Screenprint on gold paperboard

Context

One People Unite demonstrates Jones-Hogu’s signature use of text and silhouettes of faces to create patterns. As the author of AFRICOBRA’s philosophical concepts and aesthetic principles she outlined ideals for colors (vibrant, cool-ade tones) and verbal messaging (uplifting, offering solutions). In One People Unite she incorporates gold tones underneath symmetrical green and red patterns with a repeating message of “one people unite,” clearly emphasizing her desire for a black diasporic nation.

Acquisition

Accession

2018.07-09

Source or Donor

Lusenhop Fine Art

Acquisition Method

Purchase

Credit Line

Courtesy of Lusenhop Fine Art

Made/Created

Artist

Hogu, Barbara Jones

Date made

1969

Ethnography

Notes

US Chicago

Edition

Edition Size

Less than 10

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

power, culture-related concepts, civil rights, political concepts, social science concepts

Hierarchy Name

Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)

Facet

Associated Concepts Facet

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Screen prints

Dimensions

Dimension Description

overall; image

Width

28 in

Length

24 in

Exhibition

Barbara Jones-Hogu: Resist, Relate, Unite, 1968-1975

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Cultural/Historical Context

Label

The African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists (AfriCOBRA) was founded in 1968 by Jeff Donaldson, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Wadsworth Jarrell and Gerald Williams on the South Side of Chicago as a group of Black artists. The group aimed to create art that celebrated and brought together members of the African diaspora. They strove to create images that expressed the depth of black culture and Pan-Africanism, embracing a family tree with branches stretching beyond the United States, reaching the Caribbean and African ancestral homes.