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ZELDA "JACKIE" ORMES (1910 - 1985) Untitled (Still Life of Lilies).
Watercolor and crayon on illustration board, circa 1970. 508x508 mm; 20x20 inches. Signed in watercolor, lower left. Mat board mounted to recto edges.
Provenance: Ex-collection the artist, with the artist's "Jackie Ormes Features" Chicago address stamp on the board verso, private Illinois collection.
Jackie Ormes was the first syndicated female African American cartoonist, and the cartoonist who did the most toward overcoming the stereotypes found in comic strips before the mid-1960's. Born in Pittsburgh, she began her journalistic career as a sports writer for the Pittsburgh Courier in 1939 at 24, covering the John Henry Louis & Joe Lewis heavyweight bout. In 1942, she joined the Chicago Defender in a non-artistic position. Ms. Ormes' earliest cartoon creation was Torchy Brown, a full-color Sunday feature in the early 50s. She is perhaps best known for the cartoon Patty Jo n' Ginger; Patty Jo, the black heroine doll, is now a collectors' item, and cartoon which appeared exclusively in the chain of Pittsburgh Courier papers until about 1962. Tim Jackson, Pioneering Cartoonists of Color.
