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American People #18 The Flag is Bleeding, 1967 (detail). Oil on canvas, 72 x 96 in. Courtesy of Faith Ringgold and ACA Galleries, New York© Faith Ringgold 1967. Photo courtesy ACA Galleries, New York.

MIAMI.- Today, Faith Ringgold is well known as the progenitor of the African American story quilt revival that began in the late 1970s. The once influential paintings she created during the previous decade, with only a few notable exceptions, disappeared from view, omitted from critical, art historical discourse for more than forty years. This is the first comprehensive survey of these paintings, organized on the occasion of Ringgold's 80th birthday.