Two Lg. Sam Norkin Published Ink Drawings
First, a vintage laminated theater scene, titled reverse, SLEUTH, Kieth Baxter, ..etc.
signed, mint condition, 20" x 12". Another, also vintage & India ink, titled STAND-UP TRAGEDY, pencil info at bottom, reverse label has all info as imaged. Signed, mint condition, 18" x 15.5".
Sam Norkin, 1917-2011 was a Brooklyn, New York-born cartoonist who specialized in theater caricatures for more than seven decades. His drawings of theater, opera, ballet and film celebrities appeared in Variety, Backstage, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe and many other publications. Norkin's theater reminiscences and 266 drawings came together in the book Sam Norkin, Drawings, Stories (Heinemann, 1994), which was reviewed by David Barbou. Artwork by Norkin has been exhibited in the Lincoln Center Library and Museum of the Performing Arts, the Museum of the City of New York, the Metropolitan Opera House, the Hudson River Museum in (Yonkers, New York) and various galleries