Lot 133
Cliff JOSEPH Free Gary Tyler! [late 1970s poster]

Estimate: $150 - $250

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Cliff JOSEPH Free Gary Tyler!

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[Afro-Americana]. [Black art].

Cliff JOSEPH. Free Gary Tyler! N.p.: n.p., n.d. [c. late 1970s]

Unbound. Original broadside poster, printed offset in black on thin white stock. Measuring approximately 15 by 22 inches. Clean and sharp. Light creases, age-toning. Very Good or better overall.

Lithograph broadside with exclamation in bold—Free Gary Tyler!—above torn shackles in horizontal motif, designed by Afro-American artist, activist, and pioneering therapist, Cliff Joseph. Signed in print. Incarcerated in Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola), Gary Tyler was then the youngest person on death row in the United States.

Scarce. OCLC locates none.

"My art is a confrontation. Among the many realities of art expression, this remains the most constant purpose of my aesthetic. It is, of course, a social art, based on my 'gut' perceptions of our worldly conditions; but it draws each viewer to confront himself in affecting those conditions. As long as these conditions remain, I must continue to move between analysis, militant pride, and revolutionary suggestion in my search and struggle for true humanity." (Cliff Joseph, correspondence with Samella S. Lewis)