Fletcher Martin Arts) depicts the 11th round of the June 25, 1948 World heavyweight boxing championship. The title is ironic: its subject is a severely battered Jersey Joe Walcott, collapsed against the referee and about to lose to (an unseen) Joe Louis. In 1954 he painted a series of illustrations for "Sports Illustrated" of heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano defending his title against Ezzard Charles. Many of his most popular works were reproduced as woodcuts, lithographs or silkscreens. After the war he taught at the Art Students League Summer School in Woodstock, New York, settled in the town, and began raising a family.
Frederic C. Walcott of Bethume Cookman College, Daytona, Florida, from 1922 to 1948. He also served as regent of the Smithsonian Institution from 1941 to 1948. Walcott died in Stamford, Connecticut on April 27, 1949 (age 80 years, 67 days). He is interred at New Milford Center Cemetery in New Milford. Frederic C. Walcott Frederic Collin Walcott (February 19, 1869April 27, 1949) was a United States Senator from Connecticut. Born in New York Mills, Oneida County, New York, Walcott attended the public schools of Utica, New York and graduated from Lawrenceville School (Lawrenceville, New Jersey) in 1886, from Phillips Academy (Andover, Massachusetts) in