Solidarity - Support

The first poster happens to hang in the offices of an organization on Valencia St. in SF called Freedom Archives. A friend who I once lived with in the early 70s runs this group and I discovered the posters presence when I met him for lunch once. The Palestinian poster is my version I believe, since the Australian copy did not include all the details of the black lines on the map. The Australian version also had better colors that were closer to the actual flag. My color sense was never great. The Australian version is in their national archives and I have been in touch with the Australian artist, who has seen to it that my name was added to their records. He has been a political artist all his life, does wonderful work and was great to deal with. At the moment I can't find his name. I do not have a copy of this poster and have no idea how to find one, except in the OMCA collection. For your information SFMOMA is having a poster show (in 3 different showings in the same space). They have their own collection I guess and a friend has one in this months version but she found out they were showing it by accident as they made no effort to let people know that they were showing their work. I don't know what was in the first batch or what will be in the third. It annoys me that I can't find out.

I am having a show of some recent work at Vessel Gallery in Oakland, 471 25th St, that runs through the middle of Feb if you ever happen to be in the neighborhood.

Hope you are doing well, Ron

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https://www.facebook.com/ron.weil.12/photos Begin forwarded message: From: Ronald Weil Date: May 14, 2011 10:18:21 PM EDT To: Dan Walsh Subject: Re: Palestine poster Hi Dan, I am out of town now so I can not check my file of old posters, but I am pretty sure I do not have a copy of this poster. I will look when I get home next week and if I do you are welcome to have it. Ron From: Dan Walsh To: ronweil@yahoo.com Sent: Wed, May 11, 2011 5:45:03 AM Subject: Palestine poster http://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/solidarity-support Hi Ron, Just a note to see if you have any duplicate copies of your Palestine poster? If yes, we might be able to arrange some interesting trades. best, Dan Walsh

The Palestine Poster Project Archives show details 2:20 PM (3 hours ago) Submitted on April 02, 2011 Submitted by anonymous user: [69.236.167.123] Submitted values are: Your name: Ron Weil Your e-mail address: ronweil@yahoo.com Subject: Poster--Palestine Will Win Category: General question or comment Poster Upload: Message: On your page http://www.palestineposterproject.org/category/special-collection/chips-... you show two posters. The one entitled Palestine Will Win is claimed by Chips Mackinolty as his work. The one on the right, entitled Solidarity-Support is my work done with Gonna Rise Again Graphics in San Francisco in 1976. Mr. Mackinolty took my idea, minus some of the details and reproduced it under his own name. I would appreciate it if you would give me credit for this work as I am now a professional artist and do not enjoy seeing my work under another person's name. He took my basic idea and reproduced it as his. The following archivest of political posters can testify to the validity of my claim: Lincoln Cushing Thank you, Ron Weil

Dan Walsh to ronweil show details 5:56 PM (1 minute ago) Hello Ron, Thanks for writing. Go here: http://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/solidarity-support Q: was Gonna Rise Again Graphics the publisher or are you the publisher? Q: is the date correct? Q: Do you want me to add a link to your site? I have a new feature going up at the PPPA site soon...it is a fillable form for the artists to use when adding posters. This form puts the artists in control of how their posters are comprehended. I can send you the Word doc now if your are interested or you can just visit the site sometime after June and access it that way. I have always loved this poster and I am glad you wrote. Have you done any other Palestine posters? Michael Rossman showed it to me at his home once. I miss him. in solidarity, Dan

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