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Monday, February 3, 2020

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Sale 2528 | Lot 65
Price Realized: $4,500With Buyer's Premium
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    • Sale 2528 Lot 65
      TURTEL ONLI (ALVIN PHILLIPS (1952 - )
      Family Group.

      Oil on cotton canvas, 1970. 610x508 mm; 24x20 inches. Signed "Turtel" and dated "3-5-70" in oil, lower right.

      Provenance: the Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., Chicago.

      Turtel Onli is a Chicago artist, author, art therapist, educator, and publisher. Onli has authored, illustrated and published numerous comic books and graphic novels. He is associated with the "Black Age of Comics," a movement dedicated to the promotion of Afrocentric comic books and graphic novels. Onli earned a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and later returned to earn a MS in art therapy. In 1970, Onli founded the Black Arts Guild in 1970 which included fellow Chicago artists Dalton Brown, Obie Creed, Kenneth Hunter, Espi Frazier and Jim Smoote. Now a retired as a public school art teacher, he worked in the Chicago Public Schools for more than two decades. Recently Onli was included in the 2013 exhibition Africobra: Art and Impact at the DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago. Zorach p. 288.

      Estimate $500 - 750

      Price Realized (with Buyer's Premium) $4,500
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