Barbara Jones-Hogu Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Barbara Jones-Hogu Art Value Price Guide

Oct. 03, 2024
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017) Untitled.
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017) Untitled. Woodcut on imitation Japan paper, 1968. 609x381 mm; 24x15 inches, full margins. Edition of ten or fewer, printed by the artist. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "Artist Proof" in pencil, lower margins. Provenance: acquired directly from the artist, private collection. Illustrated: "Barbara Jones-Hogu: Resist, Relate, Unite," DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago, 2018, p.50.
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Oct. 03, 2024
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017) Protest – America Series (Land Where My Father Died).
Est: $6,000 - $9,000
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017) Protest – America Series (Land Where My Father Died). Color screenprint on colored paper, 1969. 775x578 mm; 30½x22¾ inches, full margins. Artist proof, aside from the numbered edition of 5. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "Artist Proof" in pencil, lower margin. Provenance: the artist; private collection. Alternatively titled Land Where My Father Died by the artist. This impression printed in early 1969, shortly after the artist printed the small numbered edition of 5 in 1968. Additional impressions of this print are in the collections of the Smart Museum of Art, Illinois and the Blanton Museum of Art, Texas.
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Oct. 03, 2024
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017) America.
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017) America. Color screenprint on cream wove paper, 1969. 356x267 mm; 14x10½ inches, full margins. Edition of 200. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "200 imp." in pencil, lower margin. Published by the Institute of Design, Chicago. Provenance: private collection, New York; acquired from Swann Galleries, October 8,. 2019, private collection. This small but very scarce screenprint by Barbara Jones-Hogu was published in a portfolio of prints by graduate students at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, where Jones-Hogu received her Master of Science in Visual Design in 1970. This screenprint precedes her brighter colored work with Afri-COBRA. Her ITT thesis exhibition included similar 1969 screenprints with this powerful imagery of the white stars of the US flag as robed Klu Klux Klan members, including Land Where My Father Died and While Some Are Trying to Get Whiter. These striking prints are illustrated in Barbara Jones: Resist, Relate, Unite, her 2018 De Paul Art Museum retrospective catalogue. Widholm pp. 60, 61 and 76.
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Oct. 19, 2023
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017) Untitled.
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017) Untitled. Oil on cotton canvas, 1975. 610x610 mm; 24x24 inches. Signed in ink on canvas overlap, verso. Provenance: the estate of the artist; private collection. After co-founding the art collective AfriCOBRA and exhibiting with the group through 1973, Barbara Jones-Hogu began teaching art at Malcolm X College where she would teach for over thirty years. From 1975 on, she made art exploring more spiritual than political aspects of Black culture. This is a very rare oil painting by the artist, who worked mainly in print and drawing media.
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Oct. 19, 2023
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017) Untitled.
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017) Untitled. Lithograph on wove paper, 1968. 36x495 mm; 14x19 1/2 inches, full margins. Edition of ten or fewer, printed by the artist. Provenance: the estate of Barbara Jones-Hogu; private collection. Exhibited: (this impression) Barbara Jones-Hogu: Resist, Relate, Unite, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, January 11 - March 25, 2018. Illustrated: (this impression) Widholm, Julie Rodrigues, Rebecca Zorach, Zoe Whitley, and Faheem Majeed. Barbara Jones-Hogu: Resist, Relate, Unite, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, 2018. p. 52.
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Apr. 06, 2023
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017) Sketch for "Rise and Take Control".
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017) Sketch for "Rise and Take Control". Color pencil on cream wove paper, circa 1970. 279x216 mm; 11x8 1/2 inches, with a perforated left edge. Estate inventory number in pencil, lower edge verso. Provenance: the estate of the artist. This fascinating sketchbook drawing by Barbara Jones-Hogu is a prepartory study for her screenprint of the same title (see lot 51). Here, Jones-Hogu includes more text taken from the 1942 poem For My People by Margaret Walker. Other examples of her sketchbook drawings are illustrated in Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Faheem Majeed, Zoé Whitley, and Rebecca Zorach, Barbara Jones-Hogu: Resist, Relate, Unite,, pp. 12-17.
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Apr. 06, 2023
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017) Rise and Take Control.
Est: $12,000 - $18,000
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017) Rise and Take Control. Color screenprint on blue wove paper, 1970. 635x889 mm; 23x35 inches. From the edition of ten or fewer impressions printed by the artist. A certificate of authenticity signed by the artist is included. Exhibited (other impressions): Barbara Jones-Hogu: Resist, Relate, Unite, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, January 11 - March 25, 2018; AfriCOBRA: Messages to the People. Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, Florida, November 27, 2018 – March 24, 2019; AfriCOBRA: Nation Time. Palazzo Ca' Faccanon, Venice, Italy, May 11 – November 24, 2019. Illustrated (other impressions): Jeff Donaldson, "10 in Search of a Nation," Black World 19, no. 12 (Oct. 1970), p. 89; Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Faheem Majeed, Zoé Whitley, and Rebecca Zorach, Barbara Jones-Hogu: Resist, Relate, Unite,, p. 66. The article in the nationally distributed Black World magazine, is often called the "AfriCOBRA manifesto". A superb, richly inked impression of this important and very scarce AfriCOBRA screenprint. The title of this work is adapted from the last verse of the 1942 poem For My People by Margaret Walker. The last verse reads: "Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth. Let a beauty full of healing and a strength of final clenching be the pulsing in our spirits and our blood. Let the martial songs be written, let the dirges disappear. Let a race of men now rise and take control." Other impressions are in the collections of the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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Nov. 19, 2022
Barbara Jones-Hogu, 1938-2017, Protect Home Africa
Est: $35,000 - $45,000
Barbara Jones-Hogu 1938-2017 Protect Home Africa c. 1965-1975 pastel on cardboard 35 x 24 inches signed Provenance: the collection of the artist. Barbara Jones-Hogu was an important member of Africobra and contributed to the Wall of Respect in Chicago. As she was primarily a printmaker, this is a very rare original work by the artist. Jones-Hogu's work was featured in the museum exhibition, Soul of a Nation, Art in the Age of Black Power.
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Mar. 31, 2022
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017) God’s Child.
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017) God's Child. Color screenprint on Arches 88 paper, 2009. 596x366 mm; 23 1/2x14 inches, full margins. Signed, titled and numbered 25/30 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Thomas Lucas of Hummingbird Press, Chicago, with the blindstamp, lower margin. Published by Lusenhop Fine Art, Chicago. Additional impressions are in the permanent collections of the Studio Museum in Harlem, the DePaul Art Museum, the Chazen Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami. Illustrated: Jeffreen N. Hayes, AFRICOBRA: Messages to the People, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, with Gregory R. Miller & Co., p. 7. God's Child was the first screenprint made by Jones-Hogu in over thirty years, after having stopped making prints in the mid-1970s. The work depicts the artist as a young girl, and includes the distinctive, stylized lettering that Jones-Hogu featured in many of her AfriCOBRA prints.
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Mar. 31, 2022
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017) Nation Time II.
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017) Nation Time II. Color screenprint on lavender-colored wove paper, 1970. 508x727 mm; 20x28 3/8 inches. Artist's print, aside from an edition of ten or fewer impressions printed by the artist. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "Artist's Print" in pencil, lower margin. Provenance: collection of the artist, thence by descent to William Jones; private collection, Illinois. Another impression was exhibited in We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 Brooklyn Museum, April 21 - September 17, 2017 and Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties, Brooklyn Museum, March 7 - July 13, 2014. Illustrated: Faheem Majeed, Barbara Wildholmand, Zoé Whitley and Rebecca Zorach. Barbara Jones-Hogu: Resist, Relate, Unite, p. 68. Another impression of this screenprint is in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. Nation Time II is a scarce print by AfriCOBRA founding member Barbara Jones-Hogu.
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Mar. 31, 2022
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017) Untitled.
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017) Untitled. Woodcut on cream wove paper, 1967-68. 381x609 mm; 15x24 inches, irregular margins. Artist's proof, from a small edition of proofs printed by the artist. Signed, titled, dated 1967-68 and inscribed "Artist Proof" in pencil, lower margin. Provenance: the estate of Barbara Jones-Hogu; private collection, Illinois. This scarce, early print precedes Jones-Hogu's work with AfriCOBRA.
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Mar. 12, 2022
Barbara Jones-Hogu, 1938-2017, Getting the Game Together
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
Barbara Jones-Hogu 1938-2017 Getting the Game Together 1967 woodcut on paper from an edition of less than 10, printed by the artist signed and titled in pencil Provenance: the artist, gifted to her brother, William Jones
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Mar. 12, 2022
Barbara Jones-Hogu, 1938-2017, untitled
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Barbara Jones-Hogu 1938-2017 untitled c. 1969 screenprint on paper 26 x 26 inches unsigned, a signed certificate from the artist accompanies the lot This is a unique proof
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Dec. 04, 2021
Barbara Jones-Hogu, 1938-2017, If I Lost My Way
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Barbara Jones-Hogu 1938-2017 If I Lost My Way 1966 etching 20 x 16 inches, full margins signed, dated, and titled. A poem written in pencil by the artist in the margin (see supplemental catalog entry on website for the text of the poem).
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Oct. 07, 2021
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017) I'm Better Than These Motherfuckers and They Know It.
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017) I'm Better Than These Motherfuckers and They Know It. Color screenprint on yellow artificial Japan paper, 1968. 635x927 mm; 25x36 1/2 inches (sheet). From the edition of 10 or fewer impressions printed by the artist. Provenance: estate of the artist; private collection. Exhibited: Barbara Jones-Hogu: Resist, Relate, Unite, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, 2018. Illustrated: Barbara Jones-Hogu: Resist, Relate, Unite, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, p: 54. This work is one of two different compositions that Jones-Hogu produced using this title. AfriCOBRA members typically produced individual works related to a group-determined theme. The I'm Better Than These Motherfuckers theme was too controversial for some members of the collective. Jones-Hogu produced two related prints, and co-founder Wadsworth Jarrell produced a painting using this title. Another impression of this work is in the collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem. The other, very different, screenprint that Jones-Hogu made using this title is in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. Both prints use the image of an African American woman on a beach with white sunbathers.
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Oct. 07, 2021
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017) America III.
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017) America III. Color screenprint on brown wove paper, 1968. 647x622 mm; 25 1/2x24 1/2 inches, full margins. From the edition of fewer than 10 impressions printed by the artist. Signed in pencil, lower right. Provenance: estate of the artist; private collection. A very scarce print which includes powerful imagery of the swastika and the white stars of the US flag as robed Klu Klux Klan members. In an interview with Rebecca Zorach and Skyla Hearn, published online for the archival project Never The Same, Jones-Hogu described her choice of this imagery: "The swastika is used to represent racism, governmental control, oppression, suppression, and fascism it is used in several of my images...I feel that racism and fascism played a great deal in my father being successful or not successful in his life, so some of these prints' ideas and content deal with the fact that we and he were not really free to do whatever we and he really wanted to do and could do due to radical oppression and suppression.." She used similar imagery in her 1968 prints Land Where My Father Died and Be Your Brother's Keeper.
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May. 22, 2021
Barbara Jones-Hogu, 1938-2017, untitled, Nation Time
Est: $7,000 - $9,000
Barbara Jones-Hogu 1938-2017 untitled, Nation Time 1968 color screenprint on gold paperboard 23 1/2 x 30 1/2 inches signed in pencil from an edition of fewer than 10 impressions printed by the artist This is a very rare example of the artist's work and she did not commonly sign her prints in pencil.
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Apr. 22, 2021
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017) Land Where My Father Died.
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017) Land Where My Father Died. Color screenprint on buff wove paper, 1968. 775x578 mm; 30 1/2 x 22 3/4 inches, full margins. Signed "Barbara J. Jones", titled, dated and numbered 3/5 in pencil, lower margin. Provenance: the artist; Williams Jones, Chicago (gift from the artist to her brother); private collection. Illustrated: Barbara Wildholm, Rebecca Zorach, Zoe Whitley and Faheem Majeed. Baraba Jones-Hogu: Resist, Relate, Unite, fig. 1, p. 76. Other impressions of this rare, early screenprint by AfriCOBRA founder Barbara Jones-Hogu are in the collection of the Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin, and the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago. Other public collections that hold her prints include the Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and Tate Modern, London.
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Dec. 10, 2020
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - ) Heritage.
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - ) Heritage. Screenprint on off-white wove paper, 1970. 813x622 mm; 32x24 1/2 inches, full margin. Artist proof, aside from the edition of 10. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "Artist proof" in pencil, lower margin. Heritage is a very scarce and important print that Jones-Hogu created during her years in AfriCOBRA. This proof version is printed in black ink - Jones-Hogu made another version in colors which she chose to represent her work on the poster for the AFRICOBRA 1: Ten in Search of a Nation exhibition, the first major exhibition of AfriCOBRA at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1970. Another impression of this print dated 1969 was included in the exhibition Barbara Jones-Hogu: Resist, Relate, Unite at the DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, 2018, and is illustrated in the catalogue.
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Dec. 10, 2020
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - ) Unite.
Est: $6,000 - $9,000
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - ) Unite. Color screenprint on cream wove paper, 1969. 572x768 mm; 22 1/2x30 1/2 inches, wide margins. One of only 10 proofs printed in 1969, aside from the later edition of 100 printed by the artist and published by AfriCOBRA in 1971. Provenance: estate of the artist; the John and Susan Horseman Collection, St. Louis; private collection, Ohio. Exhibited: Barbara Jones-Hogu: Resist, Relate, Unite, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, 2018; Histórias Afro-Atlanticas, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paulo, Brasil, 2018. Illustrated: Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Faheem Majeed, Zoe Whitley, and Rebecca Zorach, Barbara Jones-Hogu: Resist, Relate, Unite, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, 2018, page 59; Adriano Pedrosa, Histórias Afro-Atlanticas, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paulo, Brasil, 2018, page 375. Unite is the most famous composition by Jones-Hogu. The work appears in several books, journals and exhibition catalogues dating between 1971 and today. The artist produced an edition of only 10 proofs in 1969 when she was working on her Masters Thesis at the Institute of Design in Chicago. Public collections that hold an impression of this work include: The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Modern Art; Brooklyn Museum; Studio Museum inHarlem; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago; South Side Community Art Center, Chicago; National Museum of African American History and Culture; Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.; the National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis.
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Jun. 04, 2020
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - ) Untitled.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - ) Untitled. Woodcut on cream Japan paper, circa 1968. 406x635 mm; 16x25 inches, wide margins. Provenance: the estate of Barbara Jones-Hogu; private collection, Illinois. This very scarce, early print precedes her work with AfriCOBRA, and is the first of its kind to come to auction. With a signed certificate of authenticity from the artist.
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Dec. 14, 2019
Barbara Jones-Hogu. "Oh Freedom!"
Est: $500 - $700
(American, b. 1938). Serigraph, stamped with identifying information ll, "Print #10 Copyright 1971," ink signed "Barbara Jones" lr, 22 1/4 x 30 in., unframed
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Oct. 08, 2019
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017) America.
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - 2017) America. Color screenprint, 1969. 356x267 mm; 14x10 1/2 inches, full margins. Edition of 200. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "200 imp." in pencil, lower margin. This small but very scarce screenprint by Barbara Jones-Hogu was published in a portfolio of prints by graduate students at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, where Jones-Hogu received her Master of Science in Visual Design in 1970. This screenprint precedes her brighter colored work with Afri-COBRA. Her ITT thesis exhibition included similar 1969 screenprints with this powerful imagery of the white stars of the US flag as robed Klu Klux Klan members, including Land Where My Father Died and While Some Are Trying to Get Whiter . These striking prints are illustrated in Barbara Jones: Resist, Relate, Unite, her 2018 De Paul Art Museum retrospective catalogue. Widholm pp. 60, 61 and 76.
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Oct. 06, 2016
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - ) UNITE.
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
BARBARA JONES-HOGU (1938 - ) UNITE. Color screenprint, 1971. 572x768 mm; 22 1/2x30 1/2 inches, wide margins. Violet ink stamped "AfriCOBRA, Print $10, Copyright 1971," lower left. UNITE is a striking example of the work by the artist collaborative AfriCOBRA, in Chicago. Having worked together on the mural The Wall of Respect, Barbara Jones-Hogu and her contemporaries wanted to establish a revolutionary but representational style that could be accessible to a wide urban audience. The Coalition of Black Revolutionary Artists (COBRA) soon became the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists (AfriCOBRA). Between 1968 and 1973, the group organized exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and published large, colorful screenprints such as this. Schmidt Campbell p. 57.
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