PETER MAX - PRINTED ART SIGNED 1981 - HFSID 294083

PETER MAX
His 38x25 piece My Love is America Vote! Affixed to a 39x31 cardstock mount, signed in pencil by the artist in 1981.
Printed Art signed: "Max 1981", Color, 39x25, affixed to a 39x31 cardstock mount. His piece My Love is America Vote! Created for the country's bi-centennial, showing the head of Lady Liberty with "My Love is America Vote!" in blue writing printed across the top, and "Peter Max 1976" in blue writing printed at lower right. Peter Max, born in Berlin in 1937, spent most of his first ten years in Shanghai, and then traveled the world with his parents before immigrating to the US in 1953. Already an award-winning graphic artist and designer, Max burst on the cultural scene in the 1960s, first with his "psychedelic art" and then with a new concept, "cosmic art." Max, who works in many mediums, has been the official artist for the Grammy Awards, the New Orleans Jazz Festival, the Woodstock Music Festival and 5 Super Bowls. He has decorated a Boeing 747, a Dale Earnhart racecar, and 265 murals on the US border. He has designed popular US and UN stamps, painted five US Presidents, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Mikhail Gorbachev and the Dalai Lama. He painted individual portraits of 356 firefighters who lost their lives heroically on 9/11, presenting these portraits to the families, and then at President Bush's request designed 356 more for the firefighters' memorial. Overall, fine condition.