“Woody Guthrie” “Lead Belly” [a double portrait, original artwork].

Woody GUTHRIE & [Huddie William Ledbetter] ‘LEAD BELLY’ - Robert Andrew PARKER (artist, b. 1927).

“Woody Guthrie” “Lead Belly” [a double portrait, original artwork]. [Undated, but 1990s]. Original hand-colored monoprint by RAP, signed lower left corner, on wove paper (20 x 12 3/4in; 508 x 324mm).

A fine double portrait of two of the giants of 20th century American popular music.“Robert Andrew Parker is an American artist known for both his paintings and prints of figures, landscapes, and animals. Parker has produced set designs for operas and films, as well as illustrations for over 40 children’s books during the course of his career. “Robert Andrew Parker is one of the most accurate and at the same time most unliteral of painters,” the poet Marianne Moore wrote of him. “He combines the mystical and the actual, working both in an abstract and a realistic way.” Born in Norfolk, VA in 1927, he went on to study at the Art Institute of Chicago during the late 1950s. …. [ Parker lives and works in rural Connecticut.] Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.” (ArtNet).

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