Sale 2472 - African-American Fine Art, April 5, 2018

70 c MILTON DERR (1932 - ) Missippi . Brush, wash and brown ink on cream wove paper, 1965. 362x280 mm; 14 1 / 4 x11 inches. Signed “Milton”, titled “Missippi” [sic], dated and inscribed “Boston” in brown ink, lower right verso. Provenance: private collection, Massachusetts. This powerful drawing appears to be a tribute to the three CORE members, Civil Rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered in Mississippi in the summer of 1964. Born in Milwaukee, Milton Derr first studied at the city’s Layton School of Art. After serving in the Air Force during the Korean War, he studied in the Independent Group of Painters and Sculptors in Tokyo, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. After earning his diploma in 1960, he joined the faculty in 1964 at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and also taught at Tufts University. [2,000/3,000]