Ademola Olugebefola.
Black Family postcard.
New York: Nyumba Ya Sanaa Gallery, Undated (Late sixties).
Postcard.
Very good.
Minor edgewear.
An offset-printed postcard featuring Ademola Olugebefola's painting "Black Family" which is now owned by The Studio Museum and titled on their website "Family". The Nyumba Ya Sanaa Gallery, which published this postcard, was organized by the Harlem Black Arts collective Weusi in the late 1960s.
"We were the first to exhibit Faith Ringgold in Harlem, at the Nyumba Ya Sanaa Gallery, which served as a tremendous showcase for many people. Before AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists) was even formed, we showed Frank Smith and James Phillips, who later became an AfriCOBRA member. We were pioneers, not only in that this was the first major gallery, but that we were kind of an incubator. People such as Olatunji, Amiri Baraka, and Larry Neal, all of them flowed through the Nyumba Ya Sanaa Gallery. The Weusi artists, in a sense, looked at ourselves as the visual component of the Black Revolution or Evolutionary Movement."
- https://nereview.com/article/doing-it-his-way-ademola-olugebefolas-long-and-varied-career-in-the-arts/
Ademola Olugebefola was born Bedwick Lyola Thomas on October 2, 1941 in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands and migrated to New York City with his family at the age of four. Artist, designer, educator and businessman, Ademola's career has spanned more than fifty years. Introduced to the arts at an early age, Ademola is one of the most respected and inventive catalysts of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Primarily a visual artist, he has worked in all areas of the arts.
