Men of the Fighting Red Tails
by Robert Taylor
| Surrounded by the ground crew who kept their P-51s flying, pilots of the 332nd Fighter Group - the famous 'Tuskegee Airmen' - return from another successful mission escorting the heavy bombers of the U.S. Twelfth Air Force to attack targets in southern Germany, late 1944. Featured in Robert Taylor's Air Combat Paintings Volume VI, published in 2009, the Limited Edition print of 'Men of the Fighting Red Tails' was printed the same year. It was then signed by two of the last surviving Tuskegee pilots to fly in combat during the Second World War, including Charles McGee who is shown in the drawing alongside pilots and groundcrew of the 302nd Fighter Squadron. The prints, however, remained un-signed by artist Robert Taylor at the time of his passing in 2024. Instead, the Military Gallery, Robert's exclusive worldwide publisher, has officially embossed every copy with the logo of the Robert Taylor Trust, a body established to preserve his legacy and safeguard the future copyright in years to come. Every copy is issued mounted to full conservation standards to include museum-quality reproduction USAAF pilots wings and commemorative cloth 'Tuskegee Airmen' patch. Carrying on Robert's legacy, his talented son Richard Taylor completes every piece with a unique original pencil remarque in the lower border of the print. The Collector's edition bears a single remarque while the Tuskegee edition is completed with a triple remarque. (the paper for the main print is an 'off-white', light creamy colour) |
| Overall size: 23" x 26½" | Tuskegee edition | Image size: 10½" x 19" |
| 20 | Collector's edition | with three tuskegee pilot signatures & single legacy remarque | $695 |
| 5 | Tuskegee edition | with seven tuskegee pilot signatures & triple legacy remarque | $1795 |
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Essentially the same as the 'Tuskegee edition but with three Tuskegee signatures and a single legacy remarque. |
| Collector's edition signatures | |
| Colonel Charles McGee (signed print) | Second Lieutenant Lowell Steward (signed print) |
| General Benjamin O. Davis Jr. (matted) | |
| Tuskegee edition signatures | |
| Colonel Charles McGee (signed print) | Second Lieutenant Lowell Steward (signed print) |
| General Benjamin O. Davis Jr. (matted) | Lieutenant Colonel Leo R. Gray (matted) |
| Lieutenant Colonel George E. Hardy (matted) | Lieutenant Colonel William H. Holloman III (matted) |
| Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Jefferson (matted) | |
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