Fine Painting " 5th Avenue Gallery" by e.j.gold

Description

Gold's portrait of jazz pianist and composer Herbie Hancock is in the Smithsonian � in the permanent collection of the … more Gold's portrait of jazz pianist and composer Herbie Hancock is in the Smithsonian � in the permanent collection of the American Museum of Natural History. His art has been recently capturing astronomical prices at major auction houses worldwide.
Dimensions: 24" X 36" X 1"
Bio: E.J. Gold
E.J. Gold is the master of many visual artforms including painting, sculpture, pastel, photography, drawing and currently enjoys wide acclaim for his JazzArt ®tm which serves as stage dressing, theatrical backdrops and companion exhibits to jazz concerts and jazz events in many venues including the IAJE conferences, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Wynton Marsalis performances and many others. Here's a biographical sketch written by Linda Corriveau, the author of his photobiography, More Color Less Soul.

-- A.V. Hopcroft, Editor, E.J. Gold at MoMa, Gateways Fine Art Series

E.J. Gold was born in New York City in 1941. As the son of Horace L. Gold, the famous editor of GALAXY magazine — who has been called “the greatest editor ever in any field” by David Rosheim in Galaxy, the Dark and the Light Years — he grew up surrounded by some of the greatest science fiction writers of this century, artists and intellectuals, the Who’s Who in the Arts in America of the 40’s and 50’s: Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Frank Herbert, Alfred Bester, Harlan Ellison, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Silverberg. Other celebrities associated with his family included geniuses from the arts and the sciences like John Cage and Merce Cunningham who were frequent Friday night card players at the Golds'. less