2 Drawing by Eugene Karin Romeo & Juliet Modernist Portraits

Medium: Black & White Lithograph on cream colored, high quality linen paper.

Page measures 12 " inches x 12" inches.

Signed. Yes. Edition: Open. Uncommon.

Theme: Romantic Shakespeare Literature Love Life Death

The book art depicts Romeo in a masquerade mask. Juliet standing hands up. Simple yet very expressive.

CONDITION: Very Good. Clean. Printing on back. Rippled, aged toned edges. Print ships flat. Zoom in for details.

This is an original 1957 book art print. Not a copy reproduction or digital download.

EUGENE KARLIN [DEC 1918 - NOV 2003 ] American. Illustrator, Painter, Ceramicist, Professor.

At the forefront of the MODERNIST movement.

"An illustrator, teacher, and painter, Eugene Karlin had a career in New York as an illustrator for magazines including Fortune (1943 to 1945), Esquire, Look, New Republic and Sports Illustrated. He also did numerous drawings for books, designed record covers for RCA and Columbia, and created fine-art paintings of landscapes and figurative subjects that combined realism and abstraction."

Karlin was a native of Kenosha, Wisconsin, and took art lessons as a child at the Jane Addams Hull House in Chicago. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Students League, and the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center.

Karlin taught at several art schools, including Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, Cooper Union Art School, the School of Visual Arts and the Workshop School of Advertising and Editorial Art."--AA

"In addition to his pen and pencil sketches, Karlin created works in tempera and oil, pastels and ceramic. His works have been shown at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Corcoran Gallery, the San Francisco Museum, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Laguna Art Museum." --LAT

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