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This vibrant, agitprop screenprint derives from Jarrell’s iconic <EM>Revolutionary (Angela Davis)</EM> (1971, Brooklyn Museum), painted in homage to the renowned political activist and intellectual. As in the painting, Davis wears a \"revolutionary suit\" designed by Jarrell’s wife, Jae, which incorporated a cartridge shoulder belt. Davis speaks into a microphone, with words and phrases—\"love,\" \"resist,\" \"I have given my life to the struggle\"—as well as the capital letter B (for \"black,\" \"bad,\" and \"beautiful\"), spilling into and completely filling the pulsating surface, which is executed in high-keyed \"Kool-Aid\" colors intended to evoke an uplifting response in the viewer. </P></SPAN>","remarks":"Hold: A Meditation on Black Aesthetics"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"Acquired directly from the artist","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"<p>\n\tIn<i> Revolutionary </i>Jarrell presents the Black American feminist, prison abolitionist, and activist Angela Davis in the midst of an impassioned speech. The image swirls with text: She is composed of fragments of the phrase “Black is beautiful,” her clothing  comprises a quotation beginning “I have given my life to the struggle,” and the words “Revolutionary” and “Resist” radiate from her afro like a halo. Jarrell created this while Davis was wrongly imprisoned from 1970 to 1972 on charges of murder, kidnapping,  and conspiracy, for which she was later acquitted. Here, she holds not a gun but a speakerphone, her voice her weapon. Once asked about whether she approved of violence, Davis scoffed, remembering her youth in Alabama where she frequently experienced\n\t\n\tracist attacks, including bombings that killed her friends: “When someone asks me about violence, it means that the person has no idea what Black people have experienced in this country.”\n</p>","remarks":"Mele Gallery Rotation \"What is an American?\": Artists Reflect "}],"datebegin":1972,"sortnumber":"2017  200","published_date":"2026-05-16 02:03:06.248067","objectid":131635,"dimensions":"82.5 × 66 cm (32 1/2 × 26 in.)\r\nframe: 92.1 × 73.7 × 5.1 cm (36 1/4 × 29 × 2 in.)","on_view":true}