Jail is Just a Kind Of Warehouse for Poor People

New York: Gallery 345, n.d. [ca 1970]. Original offset lithograph, 56cm x 43cm (22" x 17"); printed in black on white wove stock. Signed in plate, lower left. Mild crease to left edge, with a single short, closed tear; Very Good+. Unbacked.

Averill (1949-1993) was a prominent and prolific East Coast artist/activist, known especially for her pacifist and anti-incarceration activism. She founded the Washington, D.C. graphic arts collective "Art For The People" in the early seventies and was an illustrator for Rolling Stone and Liberation News Service among others.