Bobcat - Open Edition Print by Charles Frace and similar items

This print is in near mint condition. It has been stored in our gallery and never framed. Buy with confidence - every order is shipped with delivery confirmation tracking number. Fast shipping from our non-smoking home. 2019AMADE-L Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: Bobcat is an open edition print by Charles Frace. It is an extremely detailed portrait of a bobcat. Image size is 10" x 7 1/2". Overall size is 11" x 8 1/2". It was published by American Masters in 1982. About the Artist: Charles Frace was born in 1926 in a small town in eastern Pennsylvania. He began drawing at five and taught himself to paint when he was fifteen. Frace remembers wanting to be an artist from an early age. His self-instructed talent earned him a scholarship to Philadelphia's Museum School of Art, where he graduated with honors. In 1955, Frace began a professional career as a freelance illustrator in New York City. Eventually, he became one of the nation's most sought-after illustrators of wildlife. However, Frace soon grew frustrated by the restrictions of illustrating ideas conceived by others and longed to paint some of his own. He finished only one, which his wife, Elke, took to a nearby art gallery. They insisted on displaying the painting in the gallery, and it sold that same afternoon. In 1973, with the issue of Frace's first limited edition print, he had finally made the permanent change to fine art. Frace brings to his art over three decades of personal research and a close kinship with animals. Frace and his art has been the subject of two books. Perhaps the greatest honor of his career came in October 1992, when Frace was recognized with a one-man exhibit of thirty-six of his paintings at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Charles Frace passed away December 16, 2005 after a long illness. Mr. Frace's legacy will continue to live on in his masterful work which has captivated art collectors and intrigued nature experts for over thirty years.