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Lot 183

[BLACK POWER]. A group of 9 Black Power blacklight/Day-Glo posters, incl. velvet example.
Sale 1250 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Nov 30, 2023 10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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[BLACK POWER]. A group of 9 Black Power blacklight/Day-Glo posters, incl. velvet example.

STOWE, George, Jr., artist. Black Panther. Los Angeles, CA: One Stop Posters, 1972. 11 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. velvet blacklight poster (small hole in lower left margin). -- 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 loss to lower right corner). -- STOWE, George, Jr., artist. Militant Miss. Los Angeles, CA: One Stop Posters, 1972. 11 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. poster (light edge and corner wear.)

[With:] War Queen. 1970. -- GOODE, George, artist. Man and Woman I. 1970 (signed in image) (slight loss to top right corner). -- GOODE, George, artist. Now! Free My Mind. 1971 (signed in image). -- GOODE, George, artist. Afro-Love. 1971 (signed in image). -- Together, 4 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)

[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). -- BRUCE, Herb, artist. I Am Somebody. Chicago: Grafica Studios, Charisma Chain Inc., 1970. 24 x 36 in. poster (light creasing, else good). Right side of poster features Reverend Dr. William Holmes Borders' famous poem, "I Am Somebody," in red and yellow text. 

Together, 9 posters. 

[Also with:] DOUGLAS, Emory (artist, b. 1943). You Can Jail a Revolutionary, but You Can't Jail the Revolution. Modern reproduction of poster originally published by the Black Panther Party, 12 x 18 in. 
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