Item #51-1807 A Bird in the Hand Isn't Worth It. Sutter Marin, 1926 - 1985.
Marin, Sutter (1926 - 1985)

A Bird in the Hand Isn't Worth It.

San Francisco: 1971. Gouache, pastel and colored pencil on board in a special cut-out mat , framed,11 x 7.5 inches. Signed in pencil lower left. Annotated on tthe verso with the title and "An S Marin '71 proverb 'on a thumbnail format.' "

A California painter and poet affiliated with San Francisco's North Beach and the San Francisco Beat Movement. His small paintings were in an exuberant figurative or abstract style. He was an instructor at the San Francisco Art Institute and at the San Francisco Creative Art Center, which he co-founded. Often collaborating with Beat poet Ruth Weiss, he illustrated her book of poetry Gallery of Women and was immortalized in one of her poems.

From the collection of the late San Francisco artist Vesta Kirby (1936-2016) who was a designer at SOM and the studio and restoration assistant and to Gordon Onslow Ford (1981-1992). Item #51-1807

Price: $5,000.00

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