Reginald Gammon

Reginald Gammon (March 31, 1921 – November 4, 2005) was an American artist and member of the African-American artist's collective, Spiral.

Biography Gammon was born on March 31, 1921, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art. Gammon served in the United States Navy during World War II stationed in Guam from 1944 through 1946.

After the war, Gammon located to New York City. In 1963, joined Spiral, a collective of Black artists interested in incorporating the concerns of the civil rights movement into their art. The group met at the artist Romare Bearden's studio and the name Spiral was suggested by Hale Woodruff. Gammon's black and white painting "Freedom Now", based on a Moneta Sleet Jr. photograph of the 1963 March on Washington, was exhibited at the 1965 Spiral exhibition First Group Showing: Works in Black and White.

After Spiral dissolved in 1966, Gammon then moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he became a member of the New Mexico Afro-American Artist Guild and the New Grounds Print Workshop.

Gammon died on November 4, 2005, in Albuquerque. His work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Woodmere Art Museum, His papers are in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.