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A Winner

Lev T. Mills

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Object Label

This image features poet, playwright, essayist, and novelist Amiri Baraka (1934–2014), who changed his name from LeRoi Jones in 1965 following the assassination of Malcolm X. For Baraka, along with many other Black artists, the late 1960s marked a turning point in his life, and he subsequently dedicated himself to the pursuit of a political Black aesthetic that might lead to liberation for Black people, and eventually for the Third World in general. He is widely regarded as the founder of the Black Arts Movement, called the “artistic” wing of the Black Power Movement.

Caption

Lev T. Mills (American, born 1940). A Winner, 1972. Screenprint on paper, Image: 23 x 18 in. (58.4 x 45.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of R.M. Atwater, Anna Wolfrom Dove, Alice Fiebiger, Joseph Fiebiger, Belle Campbell Harriss, and Emma L. Hyde, by exchange, Designated Purchase Fund, Mary Smith Dorward Fund, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, and Carll H. de Silver Fund, 2012.80.33. © Lev T. Mills. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Title

A Winner

Date

1972

Medium

Screenprint on paper

Classification

Print

Dimensions

Image: 23 x 18 in. (58.4 x 45.7 cm)

Signatures

Signed in pencil

Inscriptions

Dated and titled in pencil; numbered "16/50" in pencil

Credit Line

Gift of R.M. Atwater, Anna Wolfrom Dove, Alice Fiebiger, Joseph Fiebiger, Belle Campbell Harriss, and Emma L. Hyde, by exchange, Designated Purchase Fund, Mary Smith Dorward Fund, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, and Carll H. de Silver Fund

Accession Number

2012.80.33

Rights

© Lev T. Mills

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Lev T. Mills

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