Two originals by famed illustrator Robert Osborn Start Price USD 200.00 Current Price USD 200.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, August 23, 2008 End Time Saturday, August 30, 2008 Location Santa Fe, NM See more about 'Two originals by famed illustrator Robert Osborn' Description (From Wikipedia) According to Robert C. Osborn's (1904-1994) New York Times obituary, over his 50 year career, Osborn's sardonic and often savage drawings in books and magazines have arrested readers with their images of bloated power, violence and death. At the same time, he could be wittily ironic about society's pretensions, spoofing subjects like psychiatry, suburbanites and social climbing.Osborn characterized himself as "a drawer" whose figures "seemed to come right out of my subconscious. Garry Trudeau called him "one of the very few masters of illustrative cartooning." Robert Motherwell wrote that his drawings were "so alive that they seemed to writhe on the page with an uninhibited energy .... Osborn's art is a call to responsible action." Motherwell was among those who compared Osborn's graphic work to that of Daumier, Goya, Saul Steinberg, as well as to the sculpture of Alexander Calder, who was a friend of Osborn's.Reviewing a show in The New York Times, New York Times art critic John Russell wrote of Osborn's exhibited Chaplin drawings that few people have a nimbler, wittier or more versatile way with pen and pencil than Robert Osborn.The drawings themselves are approximately 8"x8", and are on paper approximately 12" x 14". Place a Bid!