Feb 27, 2003 - Sale 1961

Sale 1961 - Lot 261

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(LYNCHING.) [Tapley, Melvin.] Untitled graphite drawing showing an angry Black mob jeering a lynched white man, 15 1/2x10 inches sight size; matted and framed. Unisgned. Np, circa 1940

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Tapley is best known for his political cartoons and comic strips appearing in the pages of the Amsterdam News in the 1940s and 1950s. The theme in the majority of his political work was the violence begat of hatred.