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ORIGINAL ARTWORK FOR THE LIFE OF GARVEY (GARVEY, MARCUS.) MORRIS, LEONARD FRANKLIN. Seventeen watercolor studies and four preliminary pencil sketches for larger works, together with an exhibit catalog, a photograph of the artist and the artist's book on Garvey, "Questions and Answers--The Life of Marcus Mosiah Garvey." Illustrated with some of the paintings made from the watercolor sketches offered here. The watercolors are on watercolor paper, heavy wove paper and thinner dark paper, averaging image size from 5 x 6 inches to 12 x 17 inches; actual paper size is, larger with wide margins and captions. should be seen. Vp, 1960s-1970s
Leonard Franklin Morris (1933---) wrote the following in the Introduction to his book, "Questions and Answers. . ." "My work takes shape around the images and ideas that focus on the Black Experience. That is why I painted the Marcus Garvey series, to symbolize the vast contributions that one man made to the race to keep his dream alive." Morris, watercolor sketches show Garvey in a parade down Harlem's Lenox Avenue in his iconic uniform, seated in the office of "The Negro World," speaking at a Harlem rally, the "Youth Contingent" of the U.N.I.A. marching in Harlem, and an image of the "S.S. Yarmouth," re-christened the "Frederick Douglass," flagship of the Black Star Line. Sadly, it was the plan to purchase a second ship for the Black Star Line that was Garvey's undoing. A mailing, soliciting funds for that purpose, showed a ship bearing the name "Phillis Wheatley." Because technically the Line did not as yet own the ship, F.B.I, director J. Edgar Hoover had Garvey arrested for mail fraud. One of the watercolors shows Garvey's arrest, and another his trial, and yet another shows him suffering a heart attack. Finally, a pencil study shows Garvey surrounded by the faithful, on his death bed, in 1940. Morris's book, "Questions and Answers. . ." (First Books, 2003) contains a brief piece by Amy Jacques Garvey on Garvey in Jamaica, as well as poetry by Morris and others, and forty full-page illustrations of the oil paintings created from many of the sketches offered here. In all, Morris created 80 images chronicling the life of Marcus Garvey.
