[BLACK POWER]. A group of 7 Black Power blacklight/Day-Glo posters including a velvet example.
Sale 1118 - African Americana
Feb 28, 2023
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Live / Cincinnati
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[BLACK POWER]. A group of 7 Black Power blacklight/Day-Glo posters including a velvet example.
Pantheress. Chicago: One Stop Posters, [ca 1970]. 22 7/8 x 35 in. velvet blacklight poster (minor marginal tear).
[With:] The Conquerors. 1969. -- GOODE, George, artist. Man and Woman I. 1970.(Signed in image). -- War Queen. 1970. -- GOODE. Now! Free My Mind. 1971. (Signed in image). -- Afro-Love. 1971. -- Together, 5 blacklight posters, each Uvalde and Houston, TX: Houston Blacklight & Poster Dist. Co., Inc., each approx. 21 3/4 x 34 in., condition fine, with only occasional short marginal tears.
The artist George Goode created artworks that featured "Black fantasy warriors" published by the Houston Black Light Company. Two examples here have Goode's signature printed in image, however, others are also likely his work. (David Ensminger, "Black Light Panthers: The Politics of Fluorescence". Art in Print. Vol. 5, No. 2, July-August 2015, p.17)
[Also with:] The Panther and the Guardians. Chicago, IL: Apogee Posters, Inc., 1972. 22 3/8 x 34 1/2 in. blacklight poster (minor marginal tear).
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