Popsters and Celebrities
Harold Town, O.S.A., R.C.A. (1924-1990)
Chaplin (City Lights)
Chaplin (City Lights), 1971
lithograph, ed. 100/132, 14" × 20"
Rudolf Valentino (1971)
Rudolf Valentino, 1971
lithograph, ed. 3/114, 14" × 20"
Chaplin (The Champion)
Chaplin (The Champion), 1970
lithograph, ed. 177/86, 20" × 14"
Clark Gable and Joan Crawford
Clark Gable and Joan Crawford, 1971
lithograph, ed. 5/123, 14" × 20"
William S. Hart
William S. Hart, 1970
lithograph, ed. 16/60, 20" × 14"
Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger, 1969
lithograph, 21" × 25"
Charles Ogle, The Frankenstein Monster
Charles Ogle, The Frankenstein Monster, 1969
lithograph, ed. 27/80, 14" × 20"
Rudolf Valentino (1970)
Rudolf Valentino, 1970
lithograph, ed. 13/50, 20" × 14"
Pola Negri
Pola Negri, 1971
lithograph, ed. 28/99, 20" × 14"
Chaplin (The Cure)sold
Chaplin (The Cure), 1970
lithograph, ed. 147/160, 20" × 14"

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Popsters and Celebrities

Harold Town was a master of many mediums. As a draftsman, he is compared to Picasso. As a painter, his first abstract expressionist works garnered for him immense acclaim. His collages and assemblages are monumental. And it is as a printmaker that he won his first international art prizes.

A movie buff, Town created a series of drawings: Silent Stars, Sound Stars, Film Stars, many of which were included in a book by that title. Town also created a stunning suite of lithographs titled Popsters and Celebrities, of his all-time favourites: Joan Crawford; Charlie Chaplin; Clark Cable and pop icons: Yoko Ono; John Lennon; and Mick Jagger, among dozens of others.

— Iris Nowell, author of the upcoming Painters Eleven: The Wild Ones of Canadian Art


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