This comes from the Richard Ulman estate. The graduating class of 1969 made prints that were given to each student. 10 3/4 x 13 3/4 in., 17 1/2 x 23 in. (paper). This would be an early, rare print that would be hard to find in circulation due to the fact it was given to students.Born in 1939 in a small house in a quiet suburb of Chicago, Ed Paschke became well known in Chicago. As a child his interest in drawing led him to a degree program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. While commuting by train, he practiced his craft of drawing in a realistic manner. However, in school he learned to paint expressionistically, that is expressing an emotional response or seizing the moment, which was a different interpretation from the way one's eye perceives it. Studying at a museum with a large collection gave him ample opportunity to view masterpieces and major exhibitions of important artists such as Picasso, Seurat and Gauguin whose influence affected his work.After graduation, Paschke worked as an illustrator, and successfully sold his work to Playboy magazine. While working as a commercial artist by day, he found that his nights were obsessed by people who were 'disenfranchised'. He wandered the streets of ethnic neighborhoods observing the seamier side of life. Transvestites, hookers, strippers, drunks and tattoo parlors became his metier.Also many of his early paintings focused on movie stars, wrestler and circus figures, "their appearances exaggerated by illustrational precision, strange textures and in harmonious colors. He painted Marilyn Monroe as a green-faced accordion player and Claudette Colbert as a tattooed lady."He worked for a while in a factory that employed only Latinos, and later took a job in a psychiatric unit to satisfy his interest in abnormal behavior. "Outsiders and freaks" you might call this course of study. But consider how his minds' storehouse of visual images had grown. He was awarded the travel fellowship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, enabling him to visit Europe and Mexico, further enriching his lexicon of visual aberrations.Paschke was drafted into the Army in 1962, and during his two years of service, illustrated weapons manuals and pursued AWOL soldiers in the South. When he returned to Chicago, he worked briefly for a display company, and then returned to the Art Institute on his G.I. Bill. He received his M.F.A. and married a fellow student. With a Master's Degree, he could teach, earn a living, and most important, continue painting.While still in school, he had exhibited with the "Chicago Imagists" and the "Hairy Who," two groups that were responding to the growing POP ARTISTS popularized in New York. Paschke worked in various media portraying inhabitants of fringes of society. Andy Warhol's series of "Marilyn Monroe" and Marshall McLuhan's "The Medium Is The Message" were sparks in Paschke's imagination that led to even more outrageous portrayals. With "tattoos and fantastical costumes, Paschke began to concentrate on elaborately costumed figures against richly patterned background" (Thomas and Hudson). He worked with an overhead projector combining many diverse elements into one wildly luminous composition. "Spectral bands of color cut through both figure and background." Masked people emerged with black holes for eyes. Disturbing images provoked audiences, enlivened critics, and his fame grew.He has had one-man shows from Chicago to Paris and retrospectives in major museums. Still teaching, he was Chairman of the Arts and Theory Department at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois since 1977. He also continued actively painting, and in the last fifteen years of his life created portraits of well-known figures including George Washington, Adolf Hitler, Elvis Presley and Osama Bin Laden.Paschke died on November 25, 2004 in Chicago.Source:Robert Smith, The New York Times obituary, December 1, 2004, "Ed Paschke, Painter, 65, Dies".

Good condition, unframed