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Chrysler Building from 30 Rockefeller Center
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
From the observation tower of 30 Rockefeller Center, The Chrysler Building is seen looking east.
Its spire is bathed in a golden glow from direct light.
An orange sunset appears to i...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building in New York Skyline Out-of-Focus
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In this deliberately out-of-focus 1979 photograph of the New York skyline from Weehawken, Mitchell Funk captures the dynamic urban energy of Mid-Town Manhattan through the expressive...
Category
1970s Abstract Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Pushkin's Fairy Tales Princess - Fantasy Art - Art Nouveau
Located in Miami, FL
Italian Illustrator Gianni Benvenuti depicts a Pushkin's Fairy Tales Princess in a winter landscape of stylized trees with exaggerated curves and twisting branches. The princess is d...
Category
1960s Art Nouveau Landscape Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Illustration Board
Wherever You Look You See The Chrysler Building: Weehawken 2
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Wherever you look, you see The Chrysler Building. Through the lens of Photographer Mitchell Funk, The 1991 Mid-Town Manhattan skyline is seen at sunset from Weehawken, New Jersey. ...
Category
1990s Surrealist Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Untitled: Street Art - Graffiti Art Before Basquiat - African American
Located in Miami, FL
Sometimes, the most celebrated artists are not the most original. Such is the case with Jean-Michel Basquiat, known for bringing into mainstream abstract yet representational street ...
Category
1970s Street Art Mixed Media
Materials
Metal
Chrysler Building with Pan Am Building - New York Skyline
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Photographer Mitchell Funk looks up at the Met Life and Chrysler Buildings from Grand Central Station. He perfectly designs dark and light areas with golds set against blues. A silh...
Category
1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Wherever You Look You See The Chrysler Building: Twin Towers
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
On an assignment from the Port Authority of New York in 1975, Photographer Mitchell Funk was given access to the roof of Tower II of the World Trade Center. From that high vantage p...
Category
1970s Impressionist Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Beautiful Maidens Nude Women Harem, Playboy Cartoon African American Illustrator
By E. Simms Campbell
Located in Miami, FL
E. Simms Campbel was the first major African American Illustrator. He did covers for Esquire Magazine starting in the 1930s.
He created the famous bulging-eyed Esquire Mascot “Esky.”
He also worked for The Chicagoan, Cosmopolitan, Ebony, The New Yorker, Playboy, Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, Pictorial Review, and Redbook.
This work, "What do you mean your wife doesn't understand you ---- I'm your wife!" is from Cuties Daily Comic Strip, June 18, 1950
He was inducted into the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame in 2002.
His work demonstrates a deep and masterfully understanding of drawing figures and faces in an academic but stylized style.
"My pleasure, boys. Always glad to see a delegation from the States." From the Playboy Collection...
Category
1960s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
My Husbands Former Girl Friends - First Black Illustrator/ Black Cartoonist
By E. Simms Campbell
Located in Miami, FL
Cuties Cartoon Strip - E. Simms Campbell
My Husband Former Girl Friends - First Black Illustrator/ Cartoonist,
Category
1940s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Board
Rowing Sculling Team Regatta, Life Magazine - African American Illustrator
By E. Simms Campbell
Located in Miami, FL
E. Simms Campbell was the first African-American illustrator/ cartoonist published in nationally distributed, slick magazines, he created Esky, the familiar pop-eyed mascot of Esquire. This early work of 1930 was done on assignment for an interior page of Life Magazine. It features two Rowing teams engaged in spirited competition with cheering onlookers. This is a highly stylized black-and-white illustration and is masterfully executed. The work is composed of two illustrations, 6 x 9 inches and 2-3/4 x 2 inches respectively. It is initialed center bottow ESC. unframed
Campbell left the University of Chicago and transferred to and received his degree from the Chicago Art Institute.[3]
Professional career
During a job as a railroad dining-car waiter, Campbell sometimes drew caricatures of the train passengers, and one of those, impressed by Campbell's talent, gave him a job in a St. Louis art studio, Triad Studios.
He spent two years at Triad Studios before moving to New York City in 1929. A month afterward, he found work with the small advertising firm, Munig Studios, and began taking classes at the National Academy of Design.During this time, he contributed to various magazines, notably Life, & Judge
Following the suggestion of cartoonist Russell Patterson to focus on good girl art, Campbell created his "Harem Girls", a series of watercolor cartoons that attracted attention in the first issue of Esquire, debuting in 1933. Campbell's artwork was in almost every issue of Esquire from 1933 to 1958 and he was the creator of its continuing mascot, the cartoon character in a silk top hat.
He also contributed to The Chicagoan, Cosmopolitan, Ebony, The New Yorker, Playboy, Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, Pictorial Review, and Redbook.
His commercial artwork for advertising included illustrations for Barbasol, Springmaid, and Hart Schaffner...
Category
1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Gouache, Pencil
Manhattanhenge with Chrysler Building at Sunset
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The sun sets at Manhattanhenge with the Chrysler Building's crown illuminated, creating a dual lighting source. Enter Mitchell Funks light-filled world in which his photographic ima...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building at Night with New York Skyline Vista
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The Chrysler Building rises like a rocket ship in a glittering sky, conveying a sense of boundlessness. An aura of soft light caresses the scene, giving it a touch of mystical signif...
Category
1980s Impressionist Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building Blue Zoom, New York Skyline, Abstract Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
With an upward zoom and a slow exposure, Photographer Mitchell Funk reimagines one of the world's most iconic landmarks. The photograph is a lyrical evocation of a normally cold stre...
Category
1970s Abstract Impressionist Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Wherever You Look You See The Chrysler Building: Williamsburg
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In 1974, wherever you looked, you could see the Chrysler Building. In this image, from Williamsburg, the distinctive Art Deco spire of the Chrysler Building peeks its head out above ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Wherever You Look You See The Chrysler Building: Upper East Side
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Perched atop a York Avenue highrise, Photographer Mitchell Funk captures an early morning winter vista of Manhattan.
To the right of a big puff of smoke and to the right of the Twin...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building in Multiple Exposure of Blue and Magenta
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The Chrysler Building may be one of the most photographed buildings in the world, yet Mitchell Funk imagines it unlike any tourist snapshot. This colorful kaleidoscope-like image was...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building Crown at Night with Glowing Sky
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
As the sun sets and the lights come on, Photographer Mitchell Funk captures the quintessential image of the Chrysler Building's Art Deco crown in a glowing sky. The vaulting progres...
Category
Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Wherever You Look, You See The Chrysler Building: Weehawken
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In 1995, wherever you looked, you could see the Chrysler Building. In this image, from the Weehawken, New Jersey vantage point, the iconic spire of the Chrysler Building peeks its he...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Wherever You Look, You See The Chrysler Building: Greater East River
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In 1998, wherever you looked, you could see the Chrysler Building. From the vantage point of the Greater East River/ Flushing Bay, Photographer Mitchell Funk captures the Chrysler ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Wherever You Look You See The Chrysler Building: Tudor City
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
It used to be that wherever you looked, you could see the Chrysler Building. With Manhattan's rapid growth, you now must look a little harder. This image was taken on the plaza in front of Tudor City...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Pin Up Girl in Red Dress, Mid-Century, Female Artist
By Pearl Frush
Located in Miami, FL
The Pin-Up of ravishing young beauties in mid-century America was a widely popular art form. The assumption that Pin-Up art was the exclusive domain of men is a misnomer. Female illu...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board
Wherever You Look You See The Chrysler Building: McDonalds
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
It used to be that wherever you looked, you could see the Chrysler Building. With Manhattan's rapid growth, you now must look a little harder.
In the foreground of this image, the 4...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building Looking Up With Lazy Yellow Moon
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This upward view of the Chrysler Building and the adjoining former Mobil Oil Building features distinctive New York City landmarks. However, it is not a standard cell phone image ta...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building Points Towards the Heavens
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
As it soars above smaller buildings, The Chrysler Building spire resolutely points to the heavens. The flat white sky emphasizes the spire's silhouette, allowing it to dominate the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building Emerges from the New York Skyline
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The Chrysler Building's spire is captured rising from behind a skyscraper on Third Avenue in New York City. It is framed perfectly within the upper left-hand quadrant of the picture ...
Category
Early 2000s Art Deco Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Majestic Spire of the Chrysler Building Rises into a Sepia Sky
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The close-up of the Art Deco spire of the Chrysler Building is depicted majestically rising into a mood sepia sky. Looking at this work is an uplifting experience. It not only pleas...
Category
1990s Art Deco Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building at Sunset - New York Skyline in Silhouette with Orange Sky
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
"The Chrysler Building at Sunset" photograph showcases the mid-town skyline's clean and sharp silhouette. To the extreme left is the Empire State Building, and the Chrysler Building ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Empire State Building Chats with Chrysler Building
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This highly dramatic photograph shows a dialog between the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building as they appeared in 1998.
Photographer Mitchell Funk captures mid-town New...
Category
1990s Impressionist Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Quebec City with Vintage Car on Crisp Autumn Day
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Photographer Mitchell Funk selects a perfect day with intense direct lighting to create a photograph that is as much abstraction as it is representation. Funk lies on his stomach to ...
Category
1970s Abstract Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Vintage New York Skyline - Impressionist Yellow and Green
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
From Weehawken, New Jersey, we see the vintage mid-town Manhattan skyline as it appeared in the winter of 1974. In the foreground, a perfectly positioned white cruise ship sprouts sm...
Category
1970s American Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building Spire Zoom Color, Abstract Photography Pastel Color
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The Chrysler Building Spire is zoomed by Photographer Mitchell Funk. The concept is to take one of the most photographed icons in the world and present it visually different but stil...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building Spire in Gold Light. Art Deco Architecture
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This close-up of the Chrysler Building Spire in gold light was taken from the roof of a building on 38th Street. Its position gave Photographer Mitchell Funk a perfect line of sight ...
Category
1990s Art Deco Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building at Manhattanhenge
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Chrysler Building at Manhattanhenge exemplifies how to take boilerplate tourist subject matter and make into an original visual. Veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk creates an ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Elegant Manicured Topiary Garden San Francisco - Tree Sculpture
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A row of four verdant topiary trees mimics the shape and cadence of elegant windows in a home in the Sea Cliff section of San Francisco. The overall resulting image is a combinati...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Golden Gate Bridge with Birds in Monochrome San Francisco
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The semi-silhouetted arch of the majestic Golden Gate Bridge is caressed by the soft, warm tones of a setting sun. Above, a flock of birds circle as if to pay homage to the soaring e...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Fashion Model In Green, Street Photography of Abstract Wall Women Yellow Coat
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A fashionable woman in a solid yellow coat passes in front of an oversized Fashion Model On a Green Billboard on New York's Madison Avenue. In the foreground, an equally solid yello...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Bethesda fountain Central Park in Snow With Purple Umbrella
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A woman in a purple umbrella is captured in front of Bethesda Fountain Central Park in a driving snowstorm. Her formal pose perfectly aligns with the bronze sculpture so that one ele...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Streets of San Francisco at Night from the Inside of a Taxi Car
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
An unexpected view of the streets of San Francisco at night is captured by Street Photographer Mitchell Funk. From the inside of a taxi cab, we view the driver in profile as he tur...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Central Park Bow Bridge with Silhouetted Figures Post-Impressionist Golden Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Post-Impressionist Golden Light illuminates six figures on Central Park's Bow Bridge. They are depicted in casual poses unburdened by everyday stresses. The low-angle backlighting s...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Manhattan Skyscraper with Silver Shimming Light and East River Boats
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Silver light reflects off an Upper East Side skyscraper as two industrial boats pass in aligned formation. But this is not a picture of a building and boat. The extreme lighting and...
Category
2010s Surrealist Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
New York City Fog - Play of Light on the Upper East Side Skyline
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A play of light envelopes the Upper East Side skyline of New York City and projects a feeling of fogginess. Photographer Mitchell Funk captures a moment when the atmosphere transmits...
Category
2010s Surrealist Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Hippies in Central Park with Oversized Psychedelic Moon
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Two flower children converse among a gathering of hippies in Central Park. They are adorned with yellow flowers in their hair, which symbolize freedom and ideals of universal belong...
Category
1970s Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Manhattan Art Deco Chrysler Building in Blue and White
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The majestic Art Deco Chrysler Building soars in between Manhattan's skyscrapers. The cropping is radical and exudes a sense of urban exactitude, seamlessly woven into the light-fi...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Rural Americana Window Joyful Flowers - Abstract Color Norman Rockwell America
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A joyful display of flowers adorns a country house's outdoor window. It's straight out of Norman Rockwell's America. The composition is formal, with rectilinear lines painted in a de...
Category
2010s American Realist Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Fashion Models Nude Legs Fifth Avenue Billboard with Pedestrians
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A monumental Fifth Avenue billboard depicting three nude models from the waist down and only wearing shoes soars above passing pedestrians. Street photographer Mitchell Funk compose...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Plant Portrait, Rain Forest Green Tropical Plants Red Light Blur
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The road to Coconut Grove is adorned with green lush tropical rainforest plants. One of the most graphic is the alocasia macrorrhizos. They function as shapes as much as they do as w...
Category
2010s Color-Field Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Babette the Cat, Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
A stylized cat named Babette is depicted licking her paw. It is rendered in black and white, which bears the influence of Asian art in its simplicity of line, use of wash, and bleedi...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Watercolor, Pencil
Female Illustrator, Flapper of 1800, Monochromatic
By Anna Whelan Betts
Located in Miami, FL
A "Flapper of 1800" is depicted in profile with her maid holding a hat box and cradling a little monkey. The maid is a step to the right and a step behind her. Overlapping garments v...
Category
1990s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Epic Orange Sunset over Spiritual Sea with Solitary Boat
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A solitary boat is dwarfed by a colossal setting sun on a spiritual sea. The image suggests that a larger force is out there and that humans are just a part of the grand scheme.
Th...
Category
1970s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Elephants in Mexico, Life Magazine
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Done on assignment for Life Magazine, It was photographed outside Tampico Mexico. Elephants were transported to Mexico from for rehab after training in Oregon. The photographer and h...
Category
1980s American Realist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Board
St Patrick's Cathedral in a Golden Celestial Glow in New York City
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A celestial golden glow on St Patrick's Cathedral is sheathed in an equally heavenly sky. The image is not only beautiful but communicates a spirit of the divine as all elements lea...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Lion in Bowler Hat Graphic in Yellow, Red Blue, Holiday Magazine Mid-Century
By George Giusti
Located in Miami, FL
A high-impact graphic of a whimsical Lion sporting a bowler hat is depicted for a cover for Holiday Magazine, April 1958. The issue was about England, and the editors finally ran a ...
Category
1950s Abstract Geometric Animal Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Illustration Board
Twin Towers, World Trade Center in Golden Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
An iconic view of the Twin Towers shortly after completion are depicted with an angelic light.
Signed dated and numbered on lower right,
3/15 printed later, on Hahnemuhle Paper Oth...
Category
1970s American Realist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Emile Galle Monumental Cameo Vase, Art Nouveau 28 inches tall
By Émile Gallé
Located in Miami, FL
Great price! Wonderfully intricate grape and vine motif. It creates a dominant presence in person. This is a statement piece It's on sale for a limited time only. Incredible v...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Vintage Red Ferrari in Florence, Italy - Race Cars, Red Sports Cars
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A cluster of vintage red Ferraris lounge on displayed in a square in Florence, Italy. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk was struck by the unexpected site and documented the scene em...
Category
1990s Abstract Geometric Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Mid Century Expressway Proposal Over Norman Rockwell Town
Located in Miami, FL
Artist Richard Erdoes is as undervalued as he is overlooked.
Rarely does an artwork come on that market that combines sharp-witted originality with mind-boggling technical proficiency.
In “Mid-Century Expressway,” Erodes painstakingly draws a birds-eye view of a Norman Rockwell-like town buzzing with activity. He paints far away and close up in one image. Each block has its own charming Americana story unfolding. The closer the viewer gets to each scene, the more detail is revealed.
In black and white, the artist describes not only the architecture and infrastructure but also human activity - lot's of it.
Erodes’s congested town is humming. Overflowing trains, packed busses, zooming cars, stuffed trucks, frenzied pedestrians and even a marching band is depicted with great whit. But do not worry. Progress is coming and all will be well.
Superimposed onto this black and white clogged urban scene is a proposed new highway. It's painted in a punchy green and creates an unexpectedly distinct design.
The artwork was most likely done for Fortune Magazine or the like.
Notice he Esso Gasoline signs...
Category
1950s Minimalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache, Pen
Guggenheim Museum Design Inspires Clouds in New York City
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The surrounding clouds' graphic formation pays tribute to Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum's simplified design of repetitive shapes. In this stunningly original image, Photogr...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Erotic Sexual Mythological Marble Figural, Nude woman, Bacchante and Satyr Herm
Located in Miami, FL
Bacchic revelry. A sexy and nude curvaceous young Nymph/Bacchante makes amorous advances to a Herm - whose facial expression reflects her erotic touch. The Herm is stylized where his...
Category
Mid-19th Century Old Masters Nude Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Saxophone Jazz Musician Charlie Parker Record Album Cover Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
This is more than a cover illustration depicting the legendary Charlie Parker playing the saxophone.
It's an inventive graphic design concept from trailblazing illustrator Robert Weaver.
By showing the subject in two parts. The artwork's visual idea is as radical as Parker's music. A wide shot and a close-up butted together dynamically communicates an energetic motion and movement in a still image.
Signed lower right.
Record album cover illustration for Charlie Parker: Bird with Strings Live at the Apollo, Carnegie Hall and Birdland (Columbia Records, 1976).
From Wikipedia:
Robert Weaver (July 5, 1924 – September 4, 1994) was an American illustrator who was considered a pioneer of a contemporary approach to the field that began in the 1950s.
Biography
Beginning in 1952, he embarked on a mission to combine the visual ideas found in fine art with the responsibility of journalist. At the time, many practitioners of illustration were expected to paint and draw for advertising and magazine assignments with artwork that was conservative, idealized and saccharine, while other illustrators such as Ronald Searle, Arthur Szyk, George Grosz, Kathe Kollwitz and later Ralph Steadman and Tomi Ungerer injected their own opinion into the matter. Weaver joined this latter tradition by moving his role of an illustrator from a page decorator to a journalist. He ventured from the typical haven of an illustrator's studio into the world and used a pencil to observe, record facts, and draw real life based visual essays, the way that illustrators such as Burt Silverman and Franklin McMahon did. This approach would later be termed "visual journalism" and in 1983 would form the basis of a special masters degree, Illustration as Visual Essay, from the School of Visual Arts in New York.
He died at his home in Manhattan on September 4, 1994.[1]
Career and legacy
In an article for the AIGA in 1990, noted graphic art historian Steve Heller categorized Weaver as a journalistic illustrator. Other artists included Bob Gill, Jack Beck, Robert Andrew Parker, Thomas B. Allen and Philip Hays. They received crucial assignments from a group of visionary art directors that included Cipe Pineles...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Geometric Abstract Collage Flat Color "Old Lady with Spring Hat "
By Ivan Chermayeff
Located in Miami, FL
Famed graphic designer Ivan Chermayeff creates a portrait made from cut paper and magazine clippings. Chermayeff names it "Old Lady with Spring Hat " and as one views it "charming"...
Category
1990s Abstract Geometric Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Magazine Paper, Pencil
