Mar 21, 2024 - Sale 2663

Sale 2663 - Lot 245

Price Realized: $ 1,950
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(MARCUS GARVEY.) J. Richardson, artist. Drawing of a ship from Marcus Garvey's Black Star Line. Crayon and colored pencil on paper, 20 x 30 inches; mount remnants on verso, minimal wear including short crease in upper right corner. No place, March 1920
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The SS Yarmouth was the first ship acquired by Garvey's Black Star Line in 1919, and was unofficially christened the SS Frederick Douglass. The ship brought cargo to Cuba and other ports before sinking in late 1920.

This rendering does not appear to be done for publication; we have found little on the artist. The caption reads "SS Frederick Douglass was launched on Friday, October 31, 1919. The Black Star Line Inc. is a result of an Herculean effort on the part of Hon. Marcus Garvey, world-famed Negro orator who in July 1914 founded a society known as the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, of which he is now president-general. The Association has a membership of over two million, with ranches all over the United States, Canada, South and Central America, the West Indies and Africa, and is backed by its own organization."