ARTIST: Samson Pollen (New York, 1931 - 2018)
TITLE: Illustration
MEDIUM: gouache on board
CONDITION: Black spot/line in lower part.
ART SIZE: 7 x 4 inches / 17 x 10 cm
BOARD SIZE: 9 x 5 inches / 22 x 12 cm
SIGNATURE: unsigned but has artist's estate stamp on verso
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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BIOGRAPHY:
Pollen was born in the Bronx on March 19, 1931. His family moved to Brooklyn when he was 11. From an early age, he showed a talent for artwork. This was noticed by a high school teacher who helped him get enrolled at the venerable National Academy of Design in Manhattan. There he was taken under the wing of the school's Dean, Charles Louis Hinton, a legendary painter, sculptor, book illustrator and muralist.There were two periods in his career when Pollen did paperback cover paintings. The first was from the early 1950s to 1960. During the '60s, he primarily did artwork for MAMs. As they began to fade away, he focused on paperback covers again from the late '60s to the mid-'90s.