RICHARD DANSKIN Hand Signed LE Print Coca Cola General Store Americana
Hand signed in pencil lower left. Danskin is a listed California artist - biographical information is at the bottom of this listing. Figures and a motorcycle outside of the general store with Cocoa Cola advertising in the store sign and bottles stacked on the porch. The work is in great vintage condition.
The only noticeable imperfection on the work is a market the right margin about 1/3 from the top. There is minor toning as to be expected with age. The mats are in good vintage condition as well. Mat is 15.5x13.5 inches. Image is 10.5x17.5 inches.
When the new owner frames this work, it will be a beauty. Please view our other listings.We have a nice collection of fine original paintings (modern, vintage and antique) listed at very reasonable prices. Richard was born in Berkeley, Calif.
He grew up in El Cerrito and Kensington, Calif. And attended El Cerrito High School. As a youth Richard spent most of his time drawing and designing cars, boats and houses.He also spent many days in Alameda where his beloved uncle, Jack Ehrhorn, built wooden racing yachts. He was an avid sailor and had a great love for classic boats. Richard spent the early years of his career as a home designer in the San Francisco Bay Area. He designed hundreds of custom homes In the Lafayette and Orinda area, focusing on the contemporary California style of the 60's, working with glass, redwood, soaring ceilings and modernist lines. He left home design to pursue painting and opened his first art gallery in Carmel, Calif.
Over the years, he owned art galleries in Palm Springs, Calif. He is best known for his highly detailed realistic landscape paintings. He loved to travel the country searching for nostalgic scenes from rural America. He captured these scenes in a painting style that used highly realistic detail to evoke the beauty and sadness of a bygone time that could never be recaptured. Richard is also known for his 3-dimensional artworks depicting cities around the world. In later years he turned his focus more to developing and promoting other artists through his gallery.