RICK GRIFFIN 1991 BEST COMICS FINISHED PAINTING

 RICK GRIFFIN PAINTING 
 BEST COMICS & ROCK ART GALLERY 

MAGNIFICENT FINISHED MUSEUM QUALITY PAINTING
PRESENTATION PIECE
TO THE CANNERY
FOR HUGE AIR BRUSHED OUTDOOR STORE SIGN

ORIGINAL PAINTED ART 
  MAY 1991 
  PAINTED ART  
    EXTREMELY DETAILED 
 CLASSIC RICK GRIFFIN SCENE
 IMAGE AREA Measures 17 x 14 Inches!
Very suitable for framing!  

ROBERT BEERBOHM, OWNER

Rick Griffin was a good friend of mine since 1973 when he first wandered
into my Berkeley California comic book store Comics & Comix
on Telegraph Ave at Dwight Way back in 1973

We traded C&C's old comic books & pulps for his original art,
with me first ending up to his original cover to the
Print Mint edition of Tales From The Tube.

By 1991 I had became Rick's last art agent
and semi-partmer when we opened a
Rick Griffin Art Gallery in The Cannery
at San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf.

Rick Griffin created several business logos, store signage, insisting that
gallery also carry comic strip book items from around the world as he
remained true to all the art fields he enjoyed working in.

He could never forget his Zap Comics involvement
and in this piece he also pays homage to his Von Dutch roots.

My friend was coming down from his mid-age crisis,
tuning back into his kids,
wanting to create new art
as he began the next level of his
extra-ordinary career.

Gaze into the detail of the crowned winged eye ball to understand
where Rick's mind was at. He was at peace with himself.
He was supremely confidant with his artistic abilities.

One hand on the lightning bolt of life trying to get him.
The other grasping pen and ink brushes as he settled
into a life of creating art for his millions of fans to enjoy.

I helped him paint the finished outdoor sign which had the halo altered to a king's crown, as he realized he was the top dog of the concert posters we all love to enjoy and collect , as in holding his cans of paint and passing a joint back & forth, keeping it lit for him. We had a lot of fun in those days prepping this art gallery devoted to his work.

This is the finished presentation piece Rick devised for Chris Martin, owner of The Cannery, to approve Rick's plan for the huge finished over-hang sign as you came into our humble establishment. Little did Rick know, Chris was a huge fan of his work as well. The approval time took less than 30 seconds. We were told that was the fastest approval in the then-history of The Cannery. Long time ago now in a galaxy far far away.

Later that same year after a tremendous amount
of hard work and money laid out,
Rick Griffin had his most unfortunate motorcycle accident.

I miss my friend. We went to First Showing First Day of the 1989
Batman premiere at the Coronet Theatre over on Geary in San Fran.
He was such a fan of the best of culture world-wide -:)
He parked the Harley that was later in the fatal accident
blocking the front door to my Haight Ashbury store,
sauntered in, kicked out all the customer browsers,
and told me he had two tickets to the first showing.
How do you say no to Rick Griffin?

I miss the new art which would have been created in past 17 years.

This magnificent piece by The Master is being reluctantly put up for sale
as i need to get over to India to obtain hip replacement operations
so i can walk again. Earlier, HMO Aetna cancelled a long-standing
policy stating the BS "undisclosed pre-existing condition"
because i had been a passenger in a vehicle accident
coming out of a summer 1973 Houston Texas Comicon.
I cannot wait to win my case 3-5 years from now
as i am told by doctors if I do not do this now,
it might not be successful.
I am more than willing to pay a policy
for a real Universal Health Plan in this country
covering all Americans like most all other
civilized countries in this world.

Maybe one day the rest of the world

who never got a chance to see Rick's last monumental work of art

of the huge overhanging sign above the gallery door

will see it in some museum some where over the rainbow

-:)

A LARGER SCAN IS CHEERFULLY SENT TO ANY ONE WHO ASKS.
A True Gem.

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