Mar 21, 2013 - Sale 2308

Sale 2308 - Lot 178

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(ART.) SIMPSON, MERTON D. Brothers. Acrylic on artist's canvas board, 7-1/4 x 9-1/2 inches, framed by the artist and then mounted in a shadow-box, presumably by the artist as well. Signed, dated and titled on the reverse of the shadow-box.
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Merton D. Simpson is one of the last living members of the so-called 'Spiral Group.' Formed in 1963 by a group of artists to seek out methods of participation in the Civil Rights movement, sparked by the March on Washington of that year. Founding members constituted the vanguard of mid-century African American Modernism including Romare Bearden, Charles Alston, Norman Lewis and Hale Woodruff. Membership soon spread to Emma Amos (the sole woman and youngest member of the group), Calvin Douglas, Perry Ferguson, Reginald Gammon, Feirath Hines, Alvin Hollingsworth, William Majors, Richard Mayhew, Earl Miller, Merton D. Simpson and James Yeargans.