Vintage Painting MICKEY RAT Magic Mushrooms Robert Crumb Armstrong Listed Artist

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Vintage Painting MICKEY RAT Magic Mushrooms Robert Crumb Armstrong Listed Artist:
$150.00

MICKEY THE RAT

PAINTING BY LISTED ARTIST(S)

ROBERT ARMSTRONG AND/OR ROBERT CRUMB

9 (x) 8\" inch Acrylic Oil Painting on Canvas of what appears to be a version ofCrumb / Armstrong \"Mickey the Rat\" - a large snaggle toothed rat wearing aburglar\'s mask andcolorful neon clothing, carrying a torch light in one handand hisstolen goodies in a napsack slung over hisback with the right hand (always argueable that the artist is someone else so please use your own personal experience and judgement when attributing this painting to a particular artist of this genre). This Rat \"thief\" is walking at night under aquarter moon in a\'magical\' woods of mushrooms, exotic flowers and strangely colorful trees.

ARTIST: Crumb and Armstrong both made Mickey Rat caracitures. Armstrong worked on comics with Crumb. Both undoubtedly swapped ideas and artwork, and ideas about artwork. Definately a Crumb Environmentand also an already obvious Crumb caricature of Mickey - resembles also the Mickey Rat that Armstrong designed at the time he was working with Crumb.The question is, whose rate is it.......Robert Crumb or Robert Armstrong\"the rat\", and a very descriptive anddetailed painting with an obviously anti-establishment flavor which Crumb iswell known to embrace throughout his artistic career.

SCHOOL or CIRCLE OF ROBERT CRUMB: - except what appears to be some writing on the back of the canvas which has not been determined (interpreted), I cannot yet locate a signature or monogram of the artist. Definately the Robert Crumb social comix era, school of Robert Crumb and collaborators ( Robert Armstrong, Rick Griffin,Victor Moscoso,Spain Rodriguez,Robert Williams, and S. Clay Wilsonamong others). Crumb is also noted for his use of acrylics in his art work.

Painting not titled, (except perhaps for the above mentioned handwriting on the back of the canvas) but the depiction of the character rat iin this painting is extremely strikingly similar to the comic bent given by Crumb to his own \"Mickey the Rat\" comic book series, and the magical nighttime landscape of mushrooms, flowers, moon and trees is right up R. Crumb\'s alley.

AGE: Looks to be from the 60s or 70s. The canvas is stapled to the stretcher boards, and then inserted into a black painted wood frame. Perfect for this time period.

Condition of painting: as noted above, painting appears to be in excellent condition with no damage noted on close examination. Paint pigmenthas normal age patina (see photos). Frameexcellent in my opinion. See photos for detailed views of painting and frame. I have attachedwire to the back of the paintingso it is ready tohang. PLEASE Contact seller BEFORE purchasing if questions or concerns. Additional photos of painting always available for the asking. Thank you.

Theage and content of the painting definately indicatethe counter cultural time period, and the comic book caricatures of Robert Crumb and his circle of artists including Robert Armstrong.A pretty neat piece of social satirical art from the period. Excellent collectible artwork for collectors and museums.Priced low - if you find the signature orprovenance attributation = your gain.

Notes aboutRobert Crumb & Circle of Robert Crumb: Robert DennisCrumb (bornAugust 30, 1943), known as Robert Crumb and R. Crumb, is anAmerican cartoonist and musician. His work displays a nostalgia for Americanfolk culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and satire ofcontemporary American culture. His work has attracted much controversy,especially for his depiction of women, social hypocrisy, and non-white races. Crumb rose to prominenceafter 1968 debut of Zap Comix - the first successful publication of the underground comixera in the United States.Countercultural characters such as Fritz the Catand Mr. Natural, and the images from his \"Keep on Truckin\'\" strip, were amonghis most popular creations. Following the decline of the underground, he movedtowards biographical and autobiographical subjects, while refining his drawingstyle, a heavily crosshatched pen-and-ink style inspired by late 19th- andearly 20th-century cartooning. Much of his work appeared in the magazine hefounded, Weirdo (1981–1993), which was one of themost prominent publications of the alternative comics era. He is married tocartoonist Aline Kominsky-Crumb, with whom he hasfrequently collaborated. In 1991, Crumb was inducted into the comic book industry\'sWill Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.Robert Crumb was born on August 30, 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a Catholichousehold of English and Scottish ancestry, and is a descendant on hismother\'s side of former U.S.president Andrew Jackson. His father, Charles V. Crumb,authored the book Training People Effectively, and was a Combat Illustratorfor 20 years in the United States Marine Corps. Inspired bythe works of Walt Kelly, Fleischer Brothersanimation, and others, Crumb and his brothers drew their own comics and soldthem door to door. At fifteen, Crumb became obsessed with collecting jazz andblues records from the 1920s to the 1940s. Crumb\'s first job, in 1962, wasdrawing novelty greeting cards for American Greetings in Cleveland, Ohio.There he met a group of young bohemians such as Buzzy Linhart,Liz Johnston, and Harvey Pekar.Johnstonintroduced him to his future wife,[ Dana Morgan., whom he married in1964. Hhe tried to sell cartoons to comic book companies, who showed littleinterest in his work. In 1965, cartoonist Harvey Kurtzmanprinted some of Crumb\'s work in the humor magazine he edited, Help!.Crumb moved to New York,intending to work with Kurtzman, but Help! ceased publication shortlyafter. Crumb briefly illustrated bubblegum cards for Topps before returning toCleveland and American Greetings. In 1966, Crumb and Dana took LSD.In 1967, encouraged by the reaction to some drawings he had published inunderground newspapers, including Philadelphia\'sYarrowstalks, he and two friends leftfor San Francisco, the center of the counterculturemovement; he called Dana to follow him in 1968. His Zap Comix#1 appeared early that year, followed by #2 and #0; later issues also featuredwork by Rick Griffin,Victor Moscoso,Spain Rodriguez,Robert Williams, and S. Clay WilsonThe countercultural work was filled with gratuitous sex, drugs, and violence;it sold well, and marked the beginning of the underground comixera.Crumb was a prolific cartoonist in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Heproduced much of his best-known work then, including his Keep on Truckin\' strip, and stripsfeaturing characters such as the bohemian Fritz the Cat,spiritual guru Mr. Natural, and oversexed African-Americanstereotype Angelfood McSpade, and Micky the Rat. In 1978,he divorced Dana and married cartoonist Aline Kominsky, with whom Crumb has frequentlycollaborated. Crumb and family moved to a small village near Sauve in southern France in 1991.In 2009, after four years of work, Crumb produced The Book of Genesis an unabridgedillustrated graphic novel version of the biblical Book of Genesis.In the early 1980s, Crumb collaborated with writer Charles Bukowskion a series of comic books, featuring Crumb\'s art and Bukowski\'s writing. Crumb\'scollaboration with David Zane Mairowitz, the illustrated,part-comic biography and bibliography Introducing Kafka,aka Kafka for beginners, is one of his less sexual- and satire-oriented,comparably highbrow works since the 1990s. It is well-known and favorablyreceived, and due to its popularity was republished as R. Crumb\'s Kafka.A friend of Harvey Pekar, Crumb illustrated many of the award winning American Splendorcomics by Pekar including the first issues (1976). Crumb collaborates with hiswife, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, on many strips andcomics, including Self-Loathing Comicsand work published in The New Yorker. Crumb\'s work also appeared in Nasty Tales,a 1970s British underground comic. The publishers were acquitted in acelebrated 1972 obscenity trial at the Old Baileyin London; thefirst such case involving a comic. Giving evidence at the trial, one of thedefendants said of Crumb: \"He is the most outstanding, certainly the mostinteresting, artist to appear from the underground, and this (Dirty Dog) is Rabelaisian satire of a very high order. He isusing coarseness quite deliberately in order to get across a view of socialhypocrisy.\"Crumb has created several sets of trading cards. Hisfull-color, pen & ink portraits of 36 early great blues singers andmusicians is entitled \"Heroes of the Blues Trading Cards\". In thefashion of baseball cards, the back of each card contains a short bio writtenby Stephen Calt. Crumb\'s portraits capture the humanity and individuality ofeach performer. This set of 36 3\"x4\" cards was originally publishedby Eclipse Books in 1995. Other similar sets of cards published since that timeare entitled, \"Early Jazz Greats\" and \"Pioneers of CountryMusic\". In 2006, all 3 sets of cards were collected together in a 240-pagebook entitled, \"R. Crumb\'s Heroes of Blues, Jazz and Country\", whichincluded a 21-song CD of songs by many of those depicted in the trading cards.Terry Zwigoff, the film maker, and Dave Jasen, the ragtime pianist and poparchivist, contributed to the written text. Another set of 36 cards publishedin 2010 is entitled \"R. Crumb Trading Cards\" (Denis KitchenPublishing Co.) and features short stories on the back of each card aboutCrumb\'s familiar comic book characters: Mr. Natural, Fritz the Cat, etc. As of2011, all 4 of these decks of trading cards are still in print. A theatricalproduction based on his work was produced at Duke Universityin the early 1990s. Directed by Johnny Simons, and co-starring Avner Eisenbergand Nicholas de Wolff, the development of the playwas supervised by Crumb, who also served as set designer, drawinglarger-than-life representations of some of his most famous characters all overthe floors and walls of the set. Crumb has frequently drawn comics about hismusical interests in blues, country,bluegrass,cajun,French Bal-musette,jazz, big bandand swing musicfrom the 1920s and 1930s, and they also heavily influenced the soundtrackchoices for his band mate Zwigoff\'s 1994 Crumb documentary. In 2006, heprepared, compiled and illustrated the book R. Crumb\'s Heroes of Blues, Jazz& Country, with accompanying CD, which derived from three series of trading cardsoriginally published in the 1980s. Crumb was the leader of the band R. Crumb & His Cheap SuitSerenaders, for which he sang lead vocals, wrote several songs andplayed banjo and other instruments. Crumb often plays mandolin with Eden and John\'s East River StringBand and has drawn three covers for them: 2009\'s Drunken BarrelHouse Blues, 2008\'s Some Cold Rainy Day, and 2011\'s Be Kind To AMan When He\'s Down on which he plays mandolin.With Dominique Cravic, he founded \"Les Primitifs du Futur\" – aFrench-style band based on musette / folk, jazz and blues – and played on its 2000album World Musette.[14] He also provided the cover artfor this and other albums.Crumb has released CDs anthologizing old originalperformances gleaned from collectible 78-rpm phonograph records.His That\'s What I Call Sweet Music was released in 1999 and HotWomen: Women Singers from the Torrid Regions in 2009. Crumb drew the coverart for these CDs as well. In 2013, Crumb played mandolin with the Eden and John\'s East River StringBand on their album Take A Look at That Baby and also tookpart in the accompanying music video. Crumb has illustrated many album covers,including most prominently Cheap Thrillsby Big Brother and the Holding Companyand the compilation album The Music NeverStopped: Roots of the Grateful Dead. Between 1974 and 1984,Crumb drew at least 17 album covers for Yazoo Records/Blue Goose Records,including those of the Cheap Suit Serenaders. He also created the revised logoand record label designs of Blue Goose Records that were used from 1974 onward .In 1992 and 1993, Robert Crumb was involved in a project by Dutch formation The Beau Hunksand provided the cover art for both their albums The Beau Hunks play theoriginal Laurel & Hardy music 1 and 2. He also illustrated the albums\'booklets. In 2009, Crumb drew the artwork for a 10-CD anthology of Frenchtraditional music compiled by Guillaume Veillet for Frémeaux & Associés.The following year, he created three artworks for Christopher King\'s AimerEt Perdre: To Love And To Lose Songs, 1917–1934 and, in 2011, he once again played mandolin onan Eden and John\'s East River String Band album (Be Kind to a Man When He\'sDown) for which he also created the album cover artwork. As told by Crumbin his biographical film,his artwork was very typical in the beginning. His earlier works show a morerestrained style. In Crumb\'s own words, it was a lengthy drug trip (possiblyLSD) that \"left him fuzzy for two months\" and led to him adopting thesurrealistic, psychedelic style he\'s become known for. Crumb has beenacclaimed for his attention to detail and satirical edge, but he\'s received asignificant amount of controversy for his graphic and very disturbingportrayals of sexuality and psychology. Crumb has admitted that he rarelystarts a comic with a clear idea of where he wants to go, and usually employs astream-of-consciousness method when drawing. A peer in the underground comicsfield, Victor Moscoso, commented about his firstimpression of Crumb\'s work, in the mid-1960s, before meeting Crumb in person:\"I couldn\'t tell if it was an old man drawing young, or a young mandrawing old. Robert Crumb\'s cartooning style has drawn on the work of cartoonartists from earlier generations, including Billy De Beck(Barney Google),C.E. Brock(an old story book illustrator), Gene Ahern\'scomic strips, George Baker (Sad Sack),Isadore Freleng\'s drawings for the early Merrie Melodiesand Looney Tunesof the 1930s, Sidney Smith (The Gumps),Rube Goldberg,E.C. Segar(Popeye)and Bud Fisher(Mutt and Jeff).Crumb has cited Carl Barks, who illustrated Disney\'s \"Donald Duck\"comic books and John Stanley (Little Lulu)as formative influences on his narrative approach, as well as Harvey Kurtzman.Crumb has also cited his extensive LSD use as a factor that led him todevelop his unique style. After issues 0 and 1 of Zap, Crumb began working withothers, of whom the first was S. Clay Wilson.Crumb said, about when he first saw Wilson\'swork \"The content was something like I\'d never seen before, ... anightmare vision of hell-on-earth ....\" And \"Suddenly my own workseemed insipid....\" Crumb remainsa prominent figure, as both artist and influence, within the alternative comics milieu. He is hailed as agenius by such comic book talents as Jaime Hernandez,Daniel Clowes,and Chris Ware.In the fall of 2008, the Institute of Contemporary Artin Philadelphiahosted a major exhibition of his work, which was favorably reviewed in the New York Timesand in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Crumb has receivedseveral accolades for his work, including a nomination for the Harvey SpecialAward for Humor in 1990 and the Angoulême Grand Prix in 1999. With Jack Kirby,Will Eisner,Harvey Kurtzman,Gary Panter,and Chris Ware,Crumb was among the artists honored in the exhibition \"Masters of AmericanComics\" at the Jewish Museum in New York City, from September16, 2006 to January 28, 2007. Crumb is a prolific artist and contributed tomany of the seminal works of the underground comics movement in the 1960s,including being a founder of Zap Comix, contributing to all 16 issues, and additionallycontributing to the East Village Other and many other publicationsincluding a variety of one-off and anthology comics. During this time, inspiredby psychedelics and cartoons from the 1920s and 1930s, he introduced a widevariety of characters that became extremely popular, including Fritz the Catand Mr. Natural. Sexual themes abounded in allthese projects, often shading into scatological and pornographic comics. In themid-1970s, he contributed to the Arcadeanthology; in the 1980s, to Weirdo(which he created and co-edited). As Crumb\'s career progressed, his comic workbecame more autobiographical. He frequently collaborates with his wife, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, on comics. His Complete Crumb Comics and sketchbookselections have been published by Fantagraphics between Oct. 1987 and Jul. 2005,seventeen volumes of comics and ten volumes of sketches. Crumb (as \"R.Crumb\") contributes regularly to Mineshaft magazine, which, since 2009, hasbeen serializing \"Excerpts From R. Crumb\'s Dream and HANDLING COSTS:IPPING: Ships to all USA destinations via USPS Parcel Post. Buyer pays all shipping, packaging, insuranceand handling costs which are reflected in the shipping costcalculator. Please do not buy this item if you intend on leaving poor ratings for shipping/handling costs over which we have no control and make absolutely zero profit. Contact seller PRIOR to purchasing if questions regarding shipping & handling costs.

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