Lot 102
Don Freeman
New York, California, (1908-1978)
Don Freeman's Newstand, Vol. 1, No. 1, Winter 1941
journal of lithographs
Copyright 1940 by Associated American Artists.
Biography from the Archives of askART: Submitted December 2022 by Nancy Moure, Independent Art Researcher
Repro. and "Trumpeter's Path to Art, Writing Told. [Come One, Come All, by Don Freeman: Rinehart] Don Freeman is a California artist and writer who also likes to play hot licks on a trumpet. His early days were spent in the house of Mrs. Blass, who cared for the three Freeman children and another child and planned careers for them, mostly with the aid of tea leaves and a Ouija board. They lived on the border at Chula Vista and later in San Diego where Mr. Freeman worked. Don's descriptions of Chula Vista and San Diego are heightened by the drawings he has done from memory… Moved to New York.
After San Diego art school experience, Don was sent to New York to finish his education. He took his trumpet with him and earned money now and then playing at clubs and special events… What he learned at art school under John Sloan was the most important training Don had – how to draw a crowd. … Don Freeman met people famed in their fields… [musicians] and he went backstage in theaters, coming out with sketches… He even played a small part on the stage with three lines to speak… Those who were amused by the book Don wrote and illustrated when he came back from the war, ‘It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog,' will be even more entertained by the fun, recapturing of youthful zest and naivete and the pictures of all sorts of people in his gay, informal autobiography,"
Source:
Los Angeles Times, (newspaper) Dec. 11, 1949, p. 124 (i.e., pt. IV, p. 8).
- Dimensions: 11 7/8"H x 9"W
- Medium: journal of lithographs
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