Sale 2503 - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, March 28, 2019

313 312 312 c   (MALCOLM X.) Adams, Ovid P.; artist. We Remember Malcolm. Photo-offset poster, 17 1 / 2 x 22 1 / 2 inches, on textured paper; minimal wear. Np, 1967 [400/600] Unusual poster depiction of the assassination of Malcolm X as Jesus being taken down from the cross. It was registered for copyright on 2 June 1967, with the artist’s name there given as Charles Lewis Ovid Paul Adams. Adams (1930-2006) was a New York-born African American who did a similar print in 1967 titled “We Remember Charlie Parker” as well as a 1970 comic book issued in San Francisco titled “The Adventures of Black Eldridge”; he was a Las Vegas resident at the time of his death in 2006. Only one other example known at auction, a proof printing with another poster on verso (Swann, 1 March 2012, lot 350); and one other example known at the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. 313 c   (MALCOLM X.) “Malcolm, I think of you when I remember.” Hand-colored printed poster, 32 1 / 2 x 21 3 / 4 inches; “Sam Cornish” added in manuscript, worn, laid down on foam board. Np, circa 1970s [400/600] This apparently unknown poster features 9 lines of verse from the 1971 poem “Malcolm” by Sam Cornish (1935-2018), an African American who was appointed as the first poet laureate of Boston in 2008. It is illustrated with a hand-colored portrait.