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The November Art + Design Discovery Auction auction features original drawings by Andy Warhol from the collection of John and Gloria Griffin.  From the same collection, we will be selling an important photograph of JFK by Mark Shaw, and two paintings by important illustrator Dorothy Monet.  These are the first Dorothy Monet paintings that we are aware of that have ever come to auction. The auction also includes works by Gerald Nees, Lois Main Templeton, George Jo Mess, Ruthven Byrum, and James Bruch, Romero Britto, Yuri Yuroz, Pablo Milan, Yacov Agam, Abiola Akintola, and others. Sheafer + King Modern auctions@sheaferking.com
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Mark Shaw Signed Autographed John F. Kennedy on Dunes Photograph
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Mark Shaw Signed Autographed John F. Kennedy on Dunes Photograph

Estimate: $200 - $700
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Iconic photograph of John F. Kennedy walking on the dunes at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts taken by photographer Mark Shaw (American; 1921-1969). Signed in blue pen lower right, personalized inscription reading "To Jack Griffin April 1966" lower left. Photography stamp from Mark Shaw printed to verso with copyright dates from 1961 and 1964. 

 

Provenance: From the estate of John & Gloria Griffin.

 

John & Gloria Griffin were both creative art directors/editors in New York city in the 1950s and 1960s.  The couple moved to New York in 1949 and lived there until 1967.  During that time they collected paintings and original illustrations of artists that they worked with professionally.

 

Gloria (McVeigh) Griffin (1925-2011) taught fashion illustration and served as Art Editor for Good Housekeeping Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar Magazine in the 1950s-60s.  After moving to Minneapolis in 1967, she was a founding member of the Minnesota Women's Consortium.  In 1953, Griffin was introduced to Andy Warhol, who submitted to her a portfolio of his work to become an illustrator for Good Housekeeping.  She asked Warhol to create a number of fish drawings and paintings as illustrations for the Good Housekeeping’s Fish and Shellfish cookbook. Ultimately, Warhol’s illustrations were not chosen for publication, and the illustrations entered Gloria’s collection.

 

John Griffin (1918-2018) served as Art Director for several prominent advertising agencies.  He started his career with Kenyon & Echkardt in New York.  After returning from active military duty in 1952, Griffin began work for the Alfred Auerbach Associates where he met Andy Warhol, who illustrated many of the Auerbach Associates advertisements.  Griffin eventually became an Art Director for McCann-Erickson where he worked for the remainder of his career in New York and designed Coca-Cola advertisements among other accounts.  In 1967, Griffin moved to Minneapolis to become the Creative Director of BBDO.  He ended his career as the Advertising Director for General Mills.

 

Measurements: 19.5" W x 15.5" H.

 

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Board photo is mounted on is warped. Discoloration to photograph upper right corner. Wear to edges.

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From the estate of John & Gloria Griffin.

 

John & Gloria Griffin were both creative art directors/editors in New York city in the 1950s and 1960s.  The couple moved to New York in 1949 and lived there until 1967.  During that time they collected paintings and original illustrations of artists that they worked with professionally.

 

Gloria (McVeigh) Griffin (1925-2011) taught fashion illustration and served as Art Editor for Good Housekeeping Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar Magazine in the 1950s-60s.  After moving to Minneapolis in 1967, she was a founding member of the Minnesota Women's Consortium.  In 1953, Griffin was introduced to Andy Warhol, who submitted to her a portfolio of his work to become an illustrator for Good Housekeeping.  She asked Warhol to create a number of fish drawings and paintings as illustrations for the Good Housekeeping’s Fish and Shellfish cookbook. Ultimately, Warhol’s illustrations were not chosen for publication, and the illustrations entered Gloria’s collection.

 

John Griffin (1918-2018) served as Art Director for several prominent advertising agencies.  He started his career with Kenyon & Echkardt in New York.  After returning from active military duty in 1952, Griffin began work for the Alfred Auerbach Associates where he met Andy Warhol, who illustrated many of the Auerbach Associates advertisements.  Griffin eventually became an Art Director for McCann-Erickson where he worked for the remainder of his career in New York and designed Coca-Cola advertisements among other accounts.  In 1967, Griffin moved to Minneapolis to become the Creative Director of BBDO.  He ended his career as the Advertising Director for General Mills.

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