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Portrait of Matin Sostre Print
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12 x 16 in ($95)
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Portrait of the famous Afro-American bookstore owner and prisoner advocate See Wikipedia entry for Martin Sostre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Sostre. Sostre was my mentor when I was against the war in Vietnam. He was arrested in Buffalo during the uprising in the black community in 1967. Sentenced to 43 years in a penitentiary (Greenhaven, NY) he became a cause of Amnesty International. The police and firemen had turned their fire hoses on his bookstore and then framed Martin on trumped up heroin charges. I was the Chairperson of his Defense Committee. Eventually Sostre was given a pardon by Governor Carey of New York. Joe Shapiro, a writer for NPR's Code Switch podcasts, recently posted a piece about Martin Sostre. Several movies and books have been written about him. This is the painting I made for his Wikipedia page. I hope it finds a good home someday. Sostre died in 2015. See The Crime of Martin Sostre by Vincent Copeland, McGraw-Hill; 1st edition (1970) Youtube: Frameup!
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Print:Giclee on Canvas
Size:12 W x 16 H x 1.25 D in
Size with Frame:13.75 W x 17.75 H x 1.25 D in
Frame:White
Canvas Wrap:Black Canvas
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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B. Buffalo, NY 1944. Studied under Anthony Sisti and Buffalo Art Institute/Albright Art School as a child. Painting professionally for many years. Exhibited widely in Italy: Rome, Milan, Bologna, Florence, Terni, etc. A professional educator, taught full-time at Lane Community College for over 25 years and worked as a manager for Lane County Regional Information System. Arts activist founding many alternative art shows and galleries in the Eugene, OR and surrounding areas.
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