Exhibition Announcement: Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party,
Poster House, New York

Designer unknown
Photograph by Blair Stapp (nationality and life dates unknown)
Black Panther Party poster: Huey P. Newton, Black Panther Minister of Defense, c. 1967-1968
Lithograph, 35 x 22 15/16” (88.9 x 58.3 cm)

In March 2023, Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party will open at the Poster House, New York. Organized by curator Es-pranza Humphrey, the exhibition includes some thirty works from our collection, of which we share a selection today. This exhibition is concurrent with Made in Japan: 20th Century Poster Art & Design opening at the Poster House, New York, in March 2023.

Click here for a preview of Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party (March 2–September 10, 2023).

Left: Emory Douglas (American, born 1943)
Front cover of the newspaper, The Black Panther, vol. II, no. 1
(March 16, 1968)
Right: Emory Douglas (American, born 1943)
Front cover of the newspaper, The Black Panther, vol. IV, no. 7
(January 17, 1970)
Both: Two color offset lithograph on newsprint, 17 5/8 × 11 1/2” (44.8 × 29.2 cm)

Black Panther Party Posters

Designer unknown
An Attack Against One Is An Attack Against All. The Slaughter of Black People Must Be Stopped! By Any Means Necessary! Distributed by the Robert Brown Elliott League, c. 1968-69
Lithograph, 22 1/2 x 17 5/8” (57.2 x 44.8 cm)

Designer unknown
Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in front of Black Panther Party Headquarters, 1967
Lithograph, 28 3/8 x 23 1/16” (72.1 x 58.6 cm)

Emory Douglas (American, born 1943)
Untitled (Design by Emory: Minister of Culture, Black Panther Party), 1968
Lithograph, 22 3/4 x 8 3/4” (57.8 x 22.2 cm)

Designer unknown
Bobby Hutton Murdered by Oakland Pigs, Procession to Jail for
Eldridge Cleaver, 1968
Lithograph, 23 x 17 1/2” (58.4 x 44.5 cm)

Designer unknown.
Free the Panthers, 1969
Lithograph, 21 3/8 x 14 3/4” (54.3 x 37.5 cm)

Other Posters

Designer unknown
Cleaver for President. Peggy Terry for V.P., 1968
Lithograph, 22 x 17” (55.9 x 43.2 cm)

Dorothy E. Hayes (American, 1935-2015)
Illustration by Floyd Sowell (nationality and life dates unknown)
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
—Martin Luther King, 1971
Lithograph, 29 7/8 x 22” (76 x 55.9 cm)

Designer unknown
Angela Davis urges - Declare your Independence, 1976
Lithograph, 22 1/4 x 15 3/8” (56.5 x 39.1 cm)

June 20, 2022