Lot 126: REGINALD GAMMON (1921 - 2005) Haywood Patterson, Scottsboro Boy.

REGINALD GAMMON (1921 - 2005)
Haywood Patterson, Scottsboro Boy.

Pencil on wove paper, 1969. 365x230 mm; 10 1/2x9 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right.

Provenance: Ex-collection the artist; the artist''s estate, and New Grounds Gallery, Albuquerque, NM.

Born in Philadelphia, Reginald Gammon was a painter and printmaker known for his figurative works based on the Scottsboro Trials, and other black heroes such as the boxer Jack Johnson and jazz musicians. He later picketed the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art with Benny Andrews and other black artists in 1969; their Black Emergency Coalition called for more inclusion of black artists and curators.