Feb 27, 2003 - Sale 1961

Sale 1961 - Lot 87

Price Realized: $ 489
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(ART.) PORTRAIT OF LEON SULLIVAN. Acrylic on artist's board, signed "Jefferson." Rather large portrait of Sullivan surrounded by smaller vignettes of Sullivan in the company of well-known Black political figures, 38x28 1/2 inches sight size; matted and framed. Np, nd
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Rev. Dr. Leon H. Sullivan, pastor of the Zion Baptist Church of Philadelphia, known by Philadelphians as "The Lion of Zion," was the founder of the National Progress Economic Development Schoo. He also served on the boards of General Motors and the Boy Scouts of America. His development of the Sullivan Principles, a set of ethical guidelines for American companies doing business in South Africa during the days of apartheid was signed onto by 125 corporations.
Offered with: Sullivan. Build Brother Build. 8vo, original cloth; dust jacket. 1969.