Heritage: Wadsworth and Jae Jarrell, Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art recently acquired Wadsworth Jarrell’s Heritage - a 1973 painting of great significance - and they wanted to show it off!
Heritage: Wadsworth and Jae Jarrell examines the work and enduring legacy of multidisciplinary artists Wadsworth, and Jae Jarrell.
Featuring 15 works from the mid-1960s to the present, the exhibition is a stunning array of colorful paintings, sculptures and textiles. The Jarrells’ work engages music, the family, and many cultures from the African continent as cornerstones of pride and communal identity. Taking the form of an intimate dialogue between husband and wife, the exhibition celebrates these two Cleveland-based artists and illustrates the couple’s keen ability to incite change by focusing on heritage.
As AfriCOBRA artists, Wadsworth and Jarrell were central to the Black Arts Movement in America. Beginning in the mid-1960s, the movement celebrated a culturally-specific expression of the African American community in literature, theater, dance and the visual arts. Formed in 1968, The African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists (AfriCOBRA) met regularly on the South Side of Chicago at the home and studio of Wadsworth and Jarrell. The visual aesthetic of works by members, focused on Black American social, political, and economical conditions. On view thru FEB 25, 2018.
Heritage, 1973. Wadsworth Jarrell (American, b. 1929). Acrylic, metal foil, cotton canvas; 120.7 x 76.2 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2016.268. © Wadsworth Jarrell
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