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Art For Sale
Artist: Mitchell Funk
Artist: David Barnett
'Ginkgo Leaves Morphed into a Butterfly' Original Painting by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Original drawing signed and dated by David Barnett.
David Barnett an artist, collector, appraiser and gallerist has been passionate about art from the early age of five. David’s car...
Category
2010s Art
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor
"Hibiscus Surrounded by the Sun" iridescent acrylics and signed by artist
Located in Milwaukee, WI
8" x 10" art
18.25" x 20.5" frame
David Barnett an artist, collector, appraiser and gallerist has been passionate about art from the early age of five. David’s career as an art deal...
Category
2010s Modern Art
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Hip Beautiful Black Female Roller Skates in Central Park Soaked in Golden Light
Located in Miami, FL
A hip young black woman in Central Park pauses for a moment of reflection after her roller skate dance. Street photographer, Mithcell Funk, captures her in an off moment of introspe...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
'Homage to Kandinsky: Before Spring' original signed mixed media watercolor
Located in Milwaukee, WI
David Barnett’s ‘Homage to Wassily Kandinsky after 1911 orig. Woodcut from the Klänge (Sounds) Series, title: Before Spring,’ is an original mixed media watercolor painting, signed by the artist in the lower right corner. Part of the artist’s ‘Famous Artist Series,’ Barnett stages a collaboration between himself and the Russian Abstract Expressionist Wassily Kandinsky by scanning the original woodblock print from Kandinsky's Klänge series and printing it as a giclée on watercolor paper. The composition sees a hatted figure with a staff as they journey through hills and canyons into the night; colors pass from the inside of the woodcut to the surrounding paper where they form a rotating cycle, perhaps indicative of the cycle of influence from Kandinsky to Barnett and back again.
Mixed media giclée print & watercolor on paper
14 x 14 inches, artwork
19 x 18.75 inches, frame
Signed and dated lower right
Framed to conservation standards using archival materials including 100 percent rag matting, Museum Glass to protect from UV rays, and housed in a modern profile silver finish wood moulding
David Barnett, an artist, collector, appraiser and gallerist has been passionate about art from the early age of five. David’s career as an art dealer began at age nineteen when, as a fine arts student, he sponsored an exhibition of work by fellow student artists. In 1966, he opened his first gallery in a converted basement apartment at Wisconsin Avenue and 21st Street. In 1985 David moved his gallery from Wisconsin Avenue into the Old Button Mansion on State Street and has been active ever since. David’s talents for recognizing undervalued artists and for meeting the needs of art lovers, art collectors and artists have created a vibrant, flourishing gallery and collection of over 6,000 works of art.
David was born and raised in Wisconsin. He has been painting in watercolors, acrylics, oil pastels as well as fine art photography. David has more than 10 different series he has developed over the years. They include Abstract, Surrealism, Morph Dog, Up North Birch Bark, Impressions of Mexico City, Southwest, Fireworks, Famous Artist Paying Homage and Garden Panorama. Influential artists include Vermeer, Miro, Kandinsky, Chagall, Nolde and Klee. David has been featured in many magazines, newspapers and public television programs regarding his beautiful gallery, collection and knowledge and passion of fine art. David also has work in the permanent collection Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona.
Since its opening in 1966, The David Barnett Gallery has flourished to become Wisconsin's premier gallery and has the most diverse range of art available in any Wisconsin gallery, including works of art that represent more than 600 artists. The gallery also offers custom framing, art appraisals...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Giclée
Kids with Colorful Clothes in Brooklyn Park - Color Photography Pioneer
Located in Miami, FL
In the 1970s color photography was still not recognized as fine art. As a street photographer, Mitchell Funk breaks with traditional black and white photography and shoots on the street with Kodachrome. His goal is to make color photography full of color. In this image, notice how the colors of the kids...
Category
1970s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Neighborhood Kids on Stoop in Red Hood Brooklyn - Vintage Brooklyn
Located in Miami, FL
Kids from the Neighborhood in Red Hood Brooklyn are hanging out. This is what Brooklyn was like in the early 1970s. Notice the metal garbage cans.
S...
Category
1970s Impressionist Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Street People. Old Man On Park Bench New York City, Monochromatic
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk breaks with tradition and shoots street photography in color. Today in 2022, this does not seem like a big deal. But 52 years ago, in 1971, it was q...
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
'Hybrid Hibiscus I' Archival inkjet print
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Image: 2 1/2"x2 3/4"
Paper: 4 1/2"x4 1/4"
Frame: 9 1/2"x9 1/2"
Archival inkjet print
Signed in pencil lower right.
David Barnett, an artist, collector, appraiser and gallerist ha...
Category
Early 2000s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Digital
Chrysler Building at Night, Magenta Sky on Rainy New York Night - Color Photo
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures the vitality and energy of New York City's classic Art Deco skyscraper, The Chrysler Building. It glows in pink, magenta, and crimson on ...
Category
2010s Art Deco Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Conversation: Late Afternoon Impressionist Light in Central Park
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk breaks with traditional black and white photography and shoots on the street with Kodachrome. His goal: make color photography full of color in what was then a nascent ...
Category
1970s Impressionist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Black Boy Broken Glass Brooklyn Museum Color Photography Show by Henri Ghent
Located in Miami, FL
An early example of a street photography portrait in color and multiple exposures with an image of broken glass . Exhibited: Images en Couleur, Brooklyn Museum, 1970. ( This was firs...
Category
1970s American Realist Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink
Painted Ladies Victorian and Edwardian houses of San Francisco, Architecture
Located in Miami, FL
The Painted Ladies of Alamo Square are an icon of San Francisco. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures them in a quintessential beautiful way. The images is a contrast between ...
Category
2010s American Modern Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Manhattan Street Scene with Neon.
Located in Miami, FL
At dusk in Manhattan, a restaurant facade turns red and yellow from the exterior neon light. Veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk captures a moment when the snowy skies open ...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Art Deco Paris - Eiffel tower Place du Trocadéro Statues " Slave to Love" Gold
Located in Miami, FL
Reminiscent of the dreamy elegance of a bygone era, Mitchell Funk transforms a tourist location into the quintessence of timeless Paris chic. To achieve this the photographer had to rid the Trocadero of toursits. Next came choosing the right camera angle and lighting the scene dramatically. The photo recalls Brian Ferry...
Category
1990s Surrealist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Skid Row Bowery Street Portrait - The Streets of New York
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk breaks with tradition and shoots street photography in color. Today in 2022, this does not seem like a big deal. But 52 years ago, in 1970, it was q...
Category
1970s Expressionist Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
Downtown Manhattan Skyline with Graffiti Wall, Architectural Photography
Located in Miami, FL
The towering glass skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan are framed by a colorful rooftop graffiti wall in this captivating photograph by street photographer Mitchell Funk .
The fine art p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Pigment, Acrylic
Street People Bowery - New York City's "Skid Row - Street Photography
Located in Miami, FL
For decades the Bowery as the home of a huge vagrant population in New York City. This 1970 portrait captures a derelict with piercing blue eyes that echos his blue state of mind a...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Anti-Vietnam War Protesters Hippies in Central Park with American Flag
Located in Miami, FL
An attractive ffemale Hippie in Central Park during an Anti-Vietnam War protest and sandwiched with another image of an American flag.
The print is signed...
Category
1970s American Realist Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Red Wall Lower Manhattan Street Scene - Early Color Photography
Located in Miami, FL
This image is as much about the color of the red wall and the psychedelic colors of the female's shirt street as the three figures who populate the composition. Color is a co-subject...
Category
1970s Color-Field Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Spire of the Chrysler Building in Silver, Manhattan Art Deco Skyscraper
Located in Miami, FL
The Chrysler Building, a New York art deco masterpiece, is framed by modern buildings in this carefully composed image by veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk.
Signed and dat...
Category
2010s Art Deco Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Spiritual Hare Krishna Central Park, Consciousness is the Original Energy
Located in Miami, FL
In the early 1970s, Central Park was a center for celebrations and protests. In his image, the Hare Krishnas who are a mystical sect of Hinduism are capture in singing their mantra....
Category
1970s Street Art Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Times Square Theater Posters Morosco Theatre. FORTY CARATS
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk breaks with tradition and shoots street photography in color. Today in 2022 this does not seem like a big deal. But 53 years ago in 1969 it was quit...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Abandoned Homeless Man on the Steps of Bryant Park - Street Photography in Color
Located in Miami, FL
The early 1970s was a period of reexamination of the state of photography for Mitchell Funk. He broke with the tradition of shooting gritty street photography in black and white and ...
Category
1970s American Realist Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Surreal Sculpture: 'Ship of Fools'
Located in New York, NY
Combining found elements with those fashioned by my own hand, my work encompasses two- and three-dimensional collage as well as sculptural objects. Infused with a rich sense of histo...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Colorful Victorians in Alamo Square, San Francisco, Architectural Photography
Located in Miami, FL
Street photographer Mithcell Funk celebrates the colorfully painted Victorians in Alamo Square with a color photograph that reveals the true character of the architecture. It's a jo...
Category
2010s Color-Field Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Art Deco Movie Theater Marquee - Color Field Painting Meet Photography, Abstract
Located in Miami, FL
A marquee for an Art Deco Movie theater in Denton, Texas is photographed with meticulous precision by street photographer Mitchell Funk. Funk's approach...
Category
1980s Color-Field Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Kids having Fun in front East Village Yellow Wall, Street Photography in Color
Located in Miami, FL
The early 1970s was a period of reexamination of the state of photography for Mitchell Funk. He broke with the tradition of shooting gritty street photography in black and white and ...
Category
1970s Color-Field Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Vintage Red Porsche with Classic Volkswagen Mini Bus - Vintage Cars
Located in Miami, FL
A bright red 1970s Porsche is photographed and fills the composition's foreground. It's bright red color functions more like a color field painting. This is a trail-blazing image. ...
Category
1970s Color-Field Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Times Square in the 1960s - Portrait with Dancing Sign - Street Photography
Located in Miami, FL
Even at the age of 19, street photographer Mitchell Funk forged a unique style of street color photography. It was based on formal and exacting compositions with an emphasis on stron...
Category
1960s American Realist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
The Bowery Skid Row Portrait. Urban Street Art - Mid Century Green Wall
Located in Miami, FL
For generations, The Bowery was known for homeless, abandoned alcoholics. This insightful and soulful portrait from 1969 shows one of the Bowery's street residents against a green w...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Flowers Melt Snowy New York - Joyful Red Roses on a Blustery Gloomy Day
Located in Miami, FL
They say that New York City is full of contrast and contradictions. So is the case in this unexpected street photograph by Mitchell Funk, where we see the joyful optimism of a of bo...
Category
Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Sailboats , Marina District, San Francisco - Blue Water , Blue Sky
Located in Miami, FL
White sailboats form a beautiful pattern in San Fransico Bay. The shapes of Sailboats in San Francisco dot the bay and are echoed by Cumulus clouds
Signed and dated on the lower r...
Category
Early 2000s American Impressionist Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
"Homage to David Hockney - Sun and Water Spots on My Glasses by the Pool"
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Famous Artist Series: Homage to David Hockney - Sun & Water Spots on My Glasses by the Pool, miniature variation" is a mixed media watercolor and ink landscape painting of a yellow sky with tall green palm trees, red, orange, and yellow flower garden. As part of the artist's 'Famous Artist Series,' Barnett pays homage to David Hockney, who is known for his depictions of pools.
This artwork was inspired by a trip to Los Angeles, California, and the view from David's hotel room overlooking the pool at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Giclée, Watercolor
East Hampton Sky with Flock of Birds at Golden Sunset, Abstract Photography
Located in Miami, FL
A flock of birds at sunset in East Hampton is captured by color photographer Mitchell Funk. The overall composition without a central point of focus is not unlike the work of East H...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Joyful Birds on Roof of a Pink, Summer Beach House East Hampton, Abstract Photo
Located in Miami, FL
Three Gulls sit atop a colorful pink and white beach house near East Hampton. The lead gull is captured with his wings spread and poised to take flight. The picture evokes the summ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
'Frozen Faces Series: Fish Face' signed artist's proof I/XXV fine art photograph
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Pareidolia is the psychological phenomenon of observing faces in inanimate objects. In his ‘Frozen Faces Series,’ artist David Barnett plays with this phenomenon to create a series of abstract portraits out of snow. In ‘Fish Face...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
South Beach in the 1970s. Old Man Walking Enters Building - Old Miami Beach
Located in Miami, FL
This image of an elderly man entering a dilapidated Miami Beach apartment building shows how the famous resort looked before it became a hip inte...
Category
1970s Color-Field Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Vagabond Vagrant - Life on the Fringe in the Bowery - The Streets of New York
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk breaks with tradition and shoots street photography in color. Today in 2022, this does not seem like a big deal. But 52 years ago in 1969, it was qu...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Airplane in Surreal Sky
Located in Miami, FL
Surreal Photography in the Sky - Mitchell Funk brings the compositional precision of studio photography to street photography. Unlike most street p...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Twin Towers, World Trade Center, Lower Manhattan Bathed in Golden Light
Located in Miami, FL
Late afternoon golden light reflects off the metallic facade of the Twin Towers, turning them into two graphic shapes that tower above the lower Manhattan skyline. Glittering reflect...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building Spire in Golden Light Intersected with Airplane, Art Deco
Located in Miami, FL
An uncanny juxtaposition of sleek design. The bold geometric forms of the Chrysler Building Spire are set against the equally sleek lines of a contempo...
Category
2010s Art Deco Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Brooklyn Bridge Multiple Exposure in Magenta and Blue, City Abstract
Located in Miami, FL
In the early 1970s, color photography was not really considered to be art by any standard. Mitchell Funk is one of the early trailblazers of color photography as fine art. In this 19...
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Surreal Collage: 'The Descendant'
Located in New York, NY
Combining found elements with those fashioned by my own hand, my work encompasses two- and three-dimensional collage as well as sculptural objects. Infused with a rich sense of histo...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Hard Times - Street People in Monochromatic Grey New York City
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk breaks with tradition and shoots street photography in color. Today in 2022, this does not seem like a big deal. But 52 years ago in 1971, it was qu...
Category
1970s American Realist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Golden Sea and Golden Sky, Child Looking Out, Landscape Photography, Seascape
Located in Miami, FL
A dramatic seascape with golden seas complemented by an equally golden sky is depicted with a child seen from the back gazing out into infinity. The viewer can read into it what he/...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Vintage Las Vegas- Fremont Street Neon Signs, The Mint, Old Las Vegas
Located in Miami, FL
The neon signs of Fremont Street's casinos are more than just documented by photographer Mitchell Funk. They are carefully composed as if it were a studio still life with each elemen...
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Elderly Husband and Wife Group Street Portrait Against a Manhattan Red Wall
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk breaks with tradition and shoots street photography in color. Today in 2022, this does not seem like a big deal. But 50 years ago, in 1972, it was q...
Category
1970s Post-War Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Urban Street Scene, 9 West 57th Street in New York City, Abstract Photography
Located in Miami, FL
The Famous 9 West 57th Street red sculpture anchors a New York City street photograph that is part representation and part abstract. ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Athletic Male Nude on Endless Surreal Arizona Road
Located in Miami, FL
Athletic male nude about to launch out onto the open road of life. Shot on location Near Taos, New Mexico, 4 of an edition of 15, Signed, dated and n...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Ink
Hell's Kitchen , New York City, Street Photography by Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk shoots an upward view of an old walkup in Hell's Kitchen with golden glittering light against a hot sky. The warm colors vaguely allude to the distr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
'Morph Dog Series: Celebration' signed artist's proof I/XXV giclée print
Located in Milwaukee, WI
‘Celebration’ is an artist’s proof giclée print, signed and dated by the artist in the lower right. This piece is a part of Barnett’s ‘Morph Dog Series,’ so named for his use of a “morph dog”—a dog-shaped foam sculpture that transforms into a cube when turned inside out—to paint. Against a muted horizon, multicolored rings ignite the sky like fireworks as confetti cascades to the bottom of the frame; rows of morph dogs further ornament the display in red and blue.
Giclée print on watercolor paper
AP I/XXV
48 x 36 in, print
57.5 x 46.75 in, frame
Signed and dated in lower right
"AP I/XXV" in lower left
Framed to conservation standards using archival materials including 100 percent rag matting and housed in a gold finish wood moulding.
David Barnett, an artist, collector, appraiser and gallerist has been passionate about art from the early age of five. David’s career as an art dealer began at age nineteen when, as a fine arts student, he sponsored an exhibition of work by fellow student artists. In 1966, he opened his first gallery in a converted basement apartment at Wisconsin Avenue and 21st Street. In 1985 David moved his gallery from Wisconsin Avenue into the Old Button Mansion on State Street and has been active ever since. David’s talents for recognizing undervalued artists and for meeting the needs of art lovers, art collectors and artists have created a vibrant, flourishing gallery and collection of over 6,000 works of art.
David was born and raised in Wisconsin. He has been painting in watercolors, acrylics, oil pastels as well as fine art photography. David has more than 10 different series he has developed over the years. They include Abstract, Surrealism, Morph Dog, Up North Birch Bark, Impressions of Mexico City, Southwest, Fireworks, Famous Artist Paying Homage and Garden Panorama. Influential artists include Vermeer, Miro, Kandinsky, Chagall, Nolde and Klee. David has been featured in many magazines, newspapers and public television programs regarding his beautiful gallery, collection and knowledge and passion of fine art. David also has work in the permanent collection Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona.
Since its opening in 1966, The David Barnett Gallery has flourished to become Wisconsin's premier gallery and has the most diverse range of art available in any Wisconsin gallery, including works of art that represent more than 600 artists. The gallery also offers custom framing, art appraisals...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Giclée, Pencil
East Hampton Beach with Dramatic Clouds, Color Photography, Clyfford Still
Located in Miami, FL
A single house juts out into a vast sky and sea of Long Island. The image takes inspiration from the epic 19th-century paintings and the American West with vast unending sky and untamed landscapes. Yet the composition is quite radical and evocative of the simple shapes of Color Field painter Clyfford Still...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Volleyball in Central Park with Golden Light at the Magic Hour - Impressionist
Located in Miami, FL
New Yorkers are captured in leisure time with a magical golden rim light that transforms the subjects into shapes.
Signed dated and numbered 3/15 lower right recto, other sizes avail...
Category
1970s Impressionist Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Bare Ass, Folsom Street Fair Gay San Francisco
Located in Miami, FL
The print is signed, dated, and numbered with an edition of 2/15. It's signed lower right recto. printed later. Other sizes are available and it's unframed. Printed on Hahnemühle F...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Roof Top Jazz Trumpet Player Celebration of Life, Fireworks in New York
Located in Miami, FL
A celebration of Life is symbolized by a rooftop Black Jazz Musician hitting the high note just as a fireworks display lights up the New York sky. Signed ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
East Hampton Louse Point at Sunset with Warm Colors, Landscape Photography
Located in Miami, FL
The stunning natural beauty of East Hampton's Louse Point is artistically recorded by photographer Mitchell Funk in a chorus of golden browns and warm ochers.
The picture is ar...
Category
1990s Impressionist Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Surreal City Scene with Man and his Shadows in Manhattan
Located in Miami, FL
Surreal City Scene with Man and his Shadows - Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso Edition 3 of 15. Unframed. Other size available, Printed later - Printed on Hahnemühl...
Category
1990s Surrealist Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Surreal Road, Monument Valley, Sci-fi Photography, Science Fiction
Located in Miami, FL
The history of Sci-fi art and illustration has had a rich and storied past. Generation of illustrators and painters have rendered their fantastic ideas on paper and canvas. The decades of the 1920’s - 1940’s saw the imaginative but crudely drawn pulp magazine gouaches of Frank R Paul...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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