Mar 30, 2017 - Sale 2441

Sale 2441 - Lot 163

Price Realized: $ 312
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(ART.) TURNER, MORRIS NOLTEN 'MORRIE.' Abolish Segregated Housing, Freedom Now, End the War in Viet Nam. Cartoon story board 12-1/2 x 19; some discolorations; tiny closed tears and small, crude tape repair to the bottom edge. Np, circa 1965

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Morris Nolten Turner (1923-2014) was born in Oakland, CA. The list of newspapers in which his cartoons appeared is impressive (see Igoe). His main character was 'Morrie' a red beret-wearing armchair radical who would pontificate about the Civil Rights struggle, urging other to participate.