[BLACK POWER]. A group of 9 Black Power blacklight/Day-Glo posters, incl. velvet examples.
Sale 1192 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Lots 1-294
Jun 15, 2023
10:00AM ET
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Jun 16, 2023
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Live / Cincinnati
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[BLACK POWER]. A group of 9 Black Power blacklight/Day-Glo posters, incl. velvet examples.
Pantheress. Chicago: One Stop Posters, [ca 1970]. 22 7/8 x 35 in. velvet blacklight poster (creasing to margins).
[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 occasional short marginal tears and chipping.
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 (few minor marginal tears). -- Peace - Love. 23 x 35 in. printed poster (creasing, some spotting to margins, edge and corner wear). -- STOWE, George, Jr., artist. Black Panther. Los Angeles, CA: One Stop Posters, 1972. 11 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. poster (edge and corner wear, including some creasing).
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