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Peter Saul Shicago Justus (Chicago Justice), Homage to Bobby Seale of the Black Panthers1971
1971
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Peter Saul
Shicago Justus (Chicago Justice) from Conspiracy: The Artist as Witness, 1971
Lithograph on Arches paper
Edition AP (Rare AP, aside from the regular edition of 150)
Hand-signed by artist, Pencil signed and dated lower right: Saul '71. Bears Printer's distinctive Blindstamp: Stamped verso: COPYRIGHT © 1971 BY PETER SAUL
American Pop Art master Peter Saul's "Shicago Just Us" is a powerful four color lithograph proofed by hand and pulled by machine from zinc plates on Arches paper at the Shorewood-Bank Street Atelier, New York. It was created in one of the most desirable and influential eras, the early Seventies. Peter Saul is one of the pioneers of the Pop Art movement - especially recognized for his powerful anti-War pieces of the early Seventies; the subject of a monumental exhibition at the New Museum. This politically evocative piece of protest art was created for the legendary portfolio "CONSPIRACY: the Artist as Witness", published by the Center for Constitutional Rights, to raise money for the legal defense of the Chicago 7, a group of Yippies, radicals and anti-Vietnam War activists indicted by President Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell for conspiring to riot during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. (1968 was also the year Bobby Kennedy was killed and American casualties in Vietnam exceeded 30,000.) The eight demonstrators included Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale. (Bobby Seale was severed from the case and sentenced to four years for contempt after being handcuffed, shackled to a chair and gagged - hence the "Chicago 7".)
This work is a homage to Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panthers, and the artist's message about the kind of Justice Seale got in Chicago during the Conspiracy Trial is anything but subtle! Although Abbie Hoffman would later point out that these (now famous) radicals couldn't even agree on lunch, the jury convicted them of conspiracy. All of the convictions, contempt citations and lengthy jail sentences were ultimately overturned by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. This particular piece by Paul is a tribute to Bobby Seale, whose Constitutional rights were trampled upon by the lower court. For fans of Pop Artist Peter Saul, and for students of American history who appreciate Bobby Seale, as well as for collectors of Art of the Sixties - and protest art -- and for those who still believe in social justice, this iconic print symbolizes a piece of American history! Many editions of this work are already in the collections of major museums and institutions.
Stamped in ink on verso: COPYRIGHT © 1971 BY PETER SAUL
Measurements:
Framed:
19 inches (vertical) x 25 inches (horizontal)
Sheet:
18 inches (vertical) x 24 inches (horizontal)
Peter Saul Biography
Peter Saul was born in 1934 in San Francisco, California. He attended the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco, and the Washington University School of Fine Arts in St. Louis. In 2020, the New Museum of Contemporary Art mounted "Peter Saul: Crime and Punishment," the first retrospective of Peter Saul's work in New York. In 2019, les Abattoirs, Toulouse presented "Peter Saul: Pop, Funk, Bad Painting, and More," a major retrospective of Saul's work, which traveled to Le Delta in Namur, Belgium. His work has been the subject of numerous international solo presentations, including recent exhibitions at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg; the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; the Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg; The Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery Met, Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, New York; and the Fondation Salomon Art Contemporain, Alex. In 2008, his work was the subject of a traveling retrospective curated by Dan Cameron, which opened at the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, and traveled to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, and the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans. An earlier retrospective of his work opened at the Musée de l’Hôtel Bertrand, Dole, in 1999, and traveled to the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Mons. Saul’s work is frequently featured in major group exhibitions at institutions both stateside and abroad, including recent presentations at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; The Met Breuer, New York; the Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln; Kunsthalle Emden; the Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich; the New York Academy of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille; the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow; MoMA PS1, Long Island City; the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence; and the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus. His work is held in the permanent collections of numerous public institutions, including the Art Institute of Chicago; the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Dallas Museum of Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In 1993, Saul received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. In 2008, Saul received the Artist’s Foundation Legacy Award. In 2010, Saul was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Peter Saul lives and works in New York City and Germantown, New York.
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- Creator:Peter Saul (1934, American)
- Creation Year:1971
- Dimensions:Height: 19 in (48.26 cm)Width: 25 in (63.5 cm)Depth: 0.5 in (1.27 cm)
- Medium:
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- Condition:Not examined outside of original 1970s vintage metal frame, but the work appears in excellent condition. (frames are not guaranteed).
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1745213852632
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