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January 17, 2007 - New York, NY January 15, 2007 -- In celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. day, Monday, January 15th 2007, the curator of the Alton Tobey collection, representing the life's work of the late historical painter and illustrator Alton S. Tobey (1914-2005) has posted three images created by the artist showing Dr. King at the 1963 rally in Washington DC, along with four other drawings created by the artist in 1973 of John and Robery Kennedy. These works of art by Tobey were originally reproduced as lithographs and circulated as thousands of prints by Scafa Tournabene, a major print publishing and distribution company that marketed a great number of the artist's original paintings as lithographic prints during his lifetime.
The first print shown on the artist's web site is one of a painting commissioned to be a 1988 poster for the 25th anniversary of the Washington march, and shows Dr. King with a number of other political figures who were instrumental in the success of the Civil Rights movement. Two others, which were reproduced from the artist's original pencil and charcoal drawings, show Dr. King with Robert Kennedy and with other figures at the rally.
Four other drawings in the full series of six that were published by Scafa Tournabene in 1973 on the tenth anniversary of the march are of John F. and Robert Kennedy. All of the artwork created for the holiday can be viewed on the artist's web site at http://www.altontobey.com/MLKJFKRFK.html.
Alton Tobey's original paintings and murals are in the collection of The Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, The National Museum of American Illustration in Newport RI, The New York Historical Society in New York City, The Athaeneum in Hartford CT, The MacArthur Memorial in Norfolk VA, aboard the USS Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum currently undergoing restoration in New Jersey and a score of other museums and institutional collections. His work has been illustrated in Life magazine, the Golden Books History of the United States, Reader's Digest, and dozens of other books and periodicals. His main web site, containing over 400 of his historical and modern paintings and his biography can be seen at http://www.altontobey.org.
