Thomas Stockett Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1924 - d. 2007

Thomas Stockett (Maryland, 1924 - 2007): Thomas Stockett was an award-winning editorial cartoonist. Known also as Tommy and T. Stockett, Mr. Stockett. started his art career at four years old and began painting as a teenager. He received his art education at Carver High School. He worked for a local sign shop where he designed movie billboards for various theaters in Baltimore. Thomas Stockett joined the Afro-American Newspapers in 1955 as the political cartoonist where he was given the assignment of using his drawings to illustrate an editorial point and help readers envision a particular topic from a black perspective. Stockett was a multiple award winner from the Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association and the National Newspaper Publishers Association, and worked for Baltimore' s Afro-American Newspaper for 53 years.