WADSWORTH JARRELL (1929 - )
Revolutionary.

Color screenprint, 1972. 838x669 mm; 33x26 3/8 inches. Signed, titled, and numbered 33/300 in pencil, lower margin.

Wadsworth Jarrell was one of the founding members of the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists (AfriCOBRA), along with Barbara Jones-Hogu and Jeff Donaldson, when the artist collective formed in Chicago in 1968. In 1971, he created a large acrylic on canvas entitled Revolutionary that was exhibited at the Studio Museum in Harlem in the AfriCOBRA II exhibition from 1971-72. This screenprint was made by the artist when he was teaching at Howard University in 1972. AfriCOBRA members made prints based upon other works in order to spread their vision and messages to a wider African-American audience. The painting on which this serigraph is based is illustrated in H. H. Arnison's History of Modern Art, p. 635.