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Wadsworth Jarrell and Gerald Williams, Works on Paper: Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St.

Past exhibition
10 July - 11 September 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Wadsworth Jarrell, Study for Wall of Respect, 1967
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Wadsworth Jarrell USA, b. 1929

Study for Wall of Respect, 1967
Gouache
44 x 30 in
111.8 x 76.2 cm
6158
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Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Gerald Williams, In the Realm of Dreams, 2002
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Gerald Williams, In the Realm of Dreams, 2002
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) Gerald Williams, In the Realm of Dreams, 2002
  • Study for Wall of Respect
Wadsworth Jarrell was one of the members of the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC), whose efforts were integral to the creation of a mural called The Wall of Respect,...
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Wadsworth Jarrell was one of the members of the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC), whose efforts were integral to the creation of a mural called The Wall of Respect, which was painted on the side of a store in the Bronzeville neighborhood of South Chicago in 1967. This rare study for the mural demonstrates Wadsworth Jarrell's notions of positive images of Black heroes. Imagery from this study did end up being incorporated into the final wall design, especially noticeable in the lower left portion of the mural. In 1971, a fire at the location destroyed the building, along with the mural.
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Provenance

The artist's studio, Chicago, USA
Kavi Gupta, Chicago, USA

Exhibitions

AFRICOBRA 50, 2018, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, USA
Nation Time:  Miami MoCa, Florida, 2018
AFRICOBRA: Nation Time, Official Event, Biennale Arte 2019 (May 11th – November 24th 2019, Venice, Italy
Wadsworth Jarrell & Gerald Williams: Works on Paper, 2021, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, USA
The Wall of Respect: Vestiges, Shards and the Legacy of Black PowerFebruary 25–July 30, 2017 Chicago Cultural Center, 

Literature

The Wall of Respect, Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago, 376 Pages Northwestern Univ Press. 2017. by Abdul Alkalimat, Rebecca Zorach, and Romi Crawford
The SOUL OF A NATION: ART IN THE AGE OF BLACK POWER,  MARK GODFREY, ZOE WHITLEY, EDS.
Distributed Art PublishersTate Modern, London, GB 2020
1971, A Year in the Life of Color, Darby English 2016 312 pages | 47 color plates, Univ of Chicago Press
AFRICOBRA 50, 2018, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, USA Catalogue
Nation Time: Miami MoCa, Florida, 2018, Catalogue
AFRICOBRA: Nation Time, Official Event, Biennale Arte 2019 (May 11th – November 24th 2019, Venice, Italy
Wadsworth Jarrell & Gerald Williams: Works on Paper, 2021, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, USA Catalogue
The Wall of Respect: Vestiges, Shards and the Legacy of Black Power February 25–July 30, 2017, Chicago Cultural Center, Journal, Catalogue.
Art for People’s Sake: Artists and Community in Black Chicago, 1965–1975, by Rebecca Zorach

Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. 416 pp

Publications

The Wall of Respect, Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago, 376 Pages Northwestern Univ Press. 2017. by Abdul Alkalimat, Rebecca Zorach and Romi Crawford

AFRICOBRA: Nation Time, Official Event, Biennale Arte 2019 (May 11th – November 24th 2019, Venice, Italy

AFRICOBRA: Nation Time  Miami MoCA Catalogue 

The Wall of Respect: Vestiges, Shards and the Legacy of Black Power February 25–July 30, 2017, Chicago Cultural Center, Journal, Catalogue.

Art for People’s Sake: Artists and Community in Black Chicago, 1965–1975, by Rebecca Zorach

Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. 416 pp


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