Cracking Up Suite: Drama Queen


Cracking Up Suite: Drama Queen
item #: 5699
artist: Tom Everhart
type: limited edition hand-pulled lithograph
medium: archival paper
collection: Cracking Up Suite
theme: PEANUTS
character: Lucy Van Pelt
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edition size: 500
image size: 31.5"w x 21"h
hand signed: Tom Everhart
frame: no
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Tom Everhart -
"My practice of using panels whenever possible refers to the panels of the comic strip without the obligations of the black outline. The explosion of scale was and continues to be very important in emphasizing the difference between the cartoon and the painting as well as forcing a close-up view."

Tom Everhart, "Under the Influence"

A twenty-year relationship between Tom Everhart and Charles M. Schulz and the Peanuts phenomenon are reflected in the paintings and lithographs of Tom Everhart. The result of that collaborative relationship transcends the appeal of the comic strip, while simulateously giving homage to the artistry of his mentor.
"Tom is able to play with the characters in a way that is impossible within the confines of a comic strip. When you see his paintings and read their whimsical titles, it is as though Tom is letting you in on a very personal joke."

Jeanne Schulz, on Tom Everhart's art, from the Catalogue "Under the Influence"--Charles M. Schulz Museum

Everhart's paintings have been exhibited in Museums and fine art galleries worldwide, including Louvre Museum, Paris, France, 1990; Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, Portugal, 1993; and Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan, 2000. In 2003, an important one-man exhibition, "Under The Influence," was held at the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, CA. It is fitting that the first non-cartoon exhibition that the Museum mounted is a collection of paintings by artist and friend Tom Everhart. Gallery exhibitions have recently been held at Entertainment Galleries in Las Vegas and S2 Art Gallery in Chicago, and Everhart's art continues to be widely exhibited in the United States and Japan.
limited edition hand-pulled lithograph - (No information is availble at this time. Click on the category name to view all items or call 1-800-995-2357 for assistance.)
archival paper - A durable acid-free paper that stands up over time and does not turn yellow.
Cracking Up Suite - Series Description by Tom Everhart...It occurred to me recently, while laughing hysterically at my own reflection dancing uncontrollably around me on the four feet of colorful transparent Tahitian water, that the act of cracking up can be extremely visual. Depending on your own interest, the way you see things in the world, it can be extremely comical or emotionally uncontrolled and helpless.This body of work, all under the title of Cracking Up, is a topographical autobiography of my last six years, starting with the beginning of the 21st century. In terms of subject matter, all of the work consists of self-portraits and/or portraits of others conveying my way of seeing them in the act of cracking up. I believe that cracking up has never excluded anyone, at least in some small way, so I have tried to invest a certain universality of feeling and meaning encouraging the viewer to become the portrait. Surrounding the majority of the portraits are groups of various marks that formulate a map of the mind. Each section of marks refers to a possible place, time, or activity in the form of a visual memory that may have been the road traveled to the crack up.Finally, much of my past six years have been spent in French Polynesia. Because of the light, you see more color, and thus, there is, more color in life there that influences the warmth of the mind maps that frame the figures Cracking Up.
PEANUTS - We offer an abundance of art featuring the PEANUTS characters. This includes art by PEANUTS creator Charles M. Schulz, PEANUTS animator Bill Melendez and painter Tom Everhart.
Lucy Van Pelt - (No information is availble at this time. Click on the category name to view all items or call 1-800-995-2357 for assistance.)
Snoopy - (No information is availble at this time. Click on the category name to view all items or call 1-800-995-2357 for assistance.)
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