Scarce collection of 11 original courtroom sketches by artist Scott Holingue for the Chicago Today newspaper’s coverage of the Chicago Seven trial. Accomplished in graphite, colored pencil, and ink, the sketches range in size from 4 x 3.5 to 1.5 x 9, and are stamp-dated between October 1969 and February 1970, with subjects including defendants Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Rennie Davis, and Lee Weiner, Judge Julius Hoffman, and Defense Attorneys William Kunstler and Leonard Weinglass. The group lot also features several sketches of eighth man charged, Bobby Seale, of which five portray him bound and gagged. The majority of the photos are annotated and captioned (a couple captions detached but present), two are signed by Holingue, and the reverse of several sketches feature affixed newspaper clippings. Includes two glossy 8 x 10 photos of Holingue’s courtroom sketches: one depicts Rubin holding up his newly published book ‘Do It,’ and the other of Judge Hoffman as he “solemnly reads sentences,” both annotated in blue grease pencil; the Hoffman is affixed to a same-size cardstock mount, and the Rubin photo is accompanied by a cardstock mount from which it was formerly attached. In overall very good to fine condition.
