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REGINALD GAMMON (1921 - 2005) Untitled (Still Life with Pewter Pitcher).
Oil on cotton canvas, circa 1950. 610x762 mm; 24x30 inches. Signed in oil, lower left.
Provenance: Bill Hodges Gallery, New York, with the label on the frame back; private collection.
This still life is a scarce example of an oil painting by the artist made just after his move to New York in 1948. Born in Philadelphia, Reginald Gammon was a painter and printmaker, best known for his figurative works based on the Scottsboro Trials, and other African-American heroes such as the boxer Jack Johnson and jazz musicians. Gammon was also an early member of the Spiral Group who encouraged Bearden's breakthrough with his collage and photomontage projections in 1964. He later picketed the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art with Benny Andrews and other African-American artists in 1969; their Black Emergency Coalition called for more inclusion of black artists and curators.
