THE SUPERMAN 1966 oil and mixed media (pennies) on board 48” x 24” signed and dated Exhibited: Afro American Artists New York and Boston, The Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, The Museum of Fine Arts, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, May 19-June 23, 1970 Counter Currents: The New Humanism, The Humanist Center at Aida Hernandez Gallery, NY, 1974 Rebuttal to Whitney Museum Exhibition, Acts of Art Gallery, NY, 1971 (illustrated) Illustrated: Stromberg, Robert. “Artist Finds Black Beautiful.” The Jersey Journal, 8 Jan. 1969. In the years leading to the US Bicentennial (1976), Chandler, Joseph, Charles White (1918-1979), Ringgold, Hammons, and many other black artists pursued similarly politicized representations of the American flag. As Ringgold remarked, ‘The flag is the only truly subversive and revolutionary abstraction one can paint.’ Doss, Erika. “Feminist and Black Art: Black Protest.” Oxford History of Art, Twentieth-Century American Art, Oxford University Press, 2017, p. 196.
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