When Styling

Barbara Jones-Hogu, When Styling, 1973, screenprint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Thom Pegg, Tyler Fine Art, 2020.59.2
Barbara Jones-Hogu, When Styling, 1973, screenprint on paper, sheet: 40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Thom Pegg, Tyler Fine Art, 2020.59.2

Artwork Details

Title
When Styling
Artist
Date
1973
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
sheet: 40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Thom Pegg, Tyler Fine Art
Mediums Description
screenprint on paper
Classifications
Subjects
  • Figure group
  • Dress
Object Number
2020.59.2
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/2020.59.2

Artwork Description

Barbara Jones-Hogu was the only trained printmaker among the early members of the artists' collective AfriCOBRA. Her knowledge of silkscreen was crucial to the collective's success in getting their messages out. Screenprints have long been used for social critique and raising awareness because they are inexpensive to produce and easy to distribute. Intent on reaching everyday people, AfriCOBRA created prints in small editions and sold them at affordable prices in Black-owned bookstores and record shops.

Jones-Hogu is known for the expressive lettering in her prints. Her texts range from simple slogans to passages of poetry, such as the quote that appears in Rise and Take Control from "For My People" (1937) by Margaret Walker, a leading poet of the Chicago Black Renaissance. The message in When Styling'--"When Styling Think of Self-Determination-Liberation"--celebrates fashion and hairstyle as important forms of Black creativity and political resistance.

Works by this artist (2 items)

Saul Berman, River Front, 1934, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor, 1964.1.169
River Front
Artist
Date1934
oil on canvas
Not on view
Saul Berman, (Study for mural, The Railroads Came to Town), n.d., watercolor, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the Internal Revenue Service through the General Services Administration , 1962.8.26
(Study for mural, The Railroads Came to Town)
Artist
Daten.d.
watercolor
Not on view

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