ILLUSTRATION BY DAVID FREDENTHAL FROM MOVIE "PRIDE & THE PASSION"  W/ F. SINATRA # 2

Size: approx  10 3/8"  x 14 3/4"  Matted:  16" x  20". 

 Condition is good. Light toning and tiny imperfections of paper. Nicely matted and ready to be framed. We can do that for you for an extra $85 and add $25 extra for shipping then. Monogram lower left. 

Captivating original signed sepia ink drawing by the famous fine artist, illustrator and journalist David Fredenthal (1914-1958 N.Y.,CA, MI/Italy Listed) depicting a scene from the movie "The Pride And The Passion". starring Gary Grant, Sophia Loren and Frank Sinatra. A number of these drawings were used behind the credits in the film as well as the trailer. You can see the trailer on You tube. In addition, many of these drawings were featured in Life magazine in 1956. Fredenthal was one of America's most respected watercolor artists. Because of Fredenthal's prodigious drawing gifts, he was chosen by Erskine Caldwell to illustrate his novel "Tobacco Road" in 1940. He was a War Artist Correspondent for both the State Department (the European and Asian fronts) and Life magazine from 1943 to 1946 and his work was featured in Life magazine regularly during the war and after until the end of his life. Also featured in Life in 1956 were drawings that Fredenthal had vividly recorded on his sketch pad, of the entire filming of the movie, The Pride and the Passion, starring Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, and Frank Sinatra, along the treacherous mountain passes of Spain.

David Fredenthal (1914 - 1958) was one ot America's most respected watercolor artists. He was famous tor his bold, intensely vigorous and complex paintings and drawings that expressed his deep feeling forexcitement with life and living. He was a brilliant natural draftsman with a special gift for catching anything, physically and emotionally on the spot, and he never went anywhere without three or four loaded pens and a sketchbook in his pocket.As part of the WPA project he executed a number of murals including the Sports Pavilion on the Heinz Building of the New York World's Fair 1939. Some of his fresco and mural techniques were inspired by his friendship with Diego Rivera who had admired and encouraged him in the early 1930's. 

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