Richard Sparky Moore, Martin Luther King, Watercolor
Auction Date: February 19, 2022
Sold for: $180
Lot: 176
(American, 1925 - 2016),
Martin Luther King, circa 1970/ Illustration of Native People Dancing and Playing Instruments/ and Illustration for Old Yeller
watercolor and ink on paper/ ink on thick paper/ blue colored pencil on illustation tracing paper.
sheet: 11 x 13.25 inches, overall: 11 x 13.5 inches sheet: 19.25 x 14.5 inches/ sheet overall: 19 x 21.5 inches
signed in pencil on matting lower right and dated, signed in ink lower right on sheet, noted that its an Illustration for Film Strip, and at upper right of sheet is numbered 114, / signed lower right in ink and noted Art done for Whitman Publishing Co. 1950 (), / signed in pencil lower right, and titled lower center Ol Yeller.
notation on matting reads, Drawn for Film Strip Co. - Martin Luther King - 70 at upper right of matting ireads 114, also signed in ink on sheet lower right, noted Illustration for Film-Strip, and numbered 114 upper right of sheet.