ROBERT W. RICHARDS (1941-2019) Alvaro--The Rose Tattoo. Pencil and ink with fixative, on vellum. 12x4 1/2 inches, on 17x14-inch sheet. Signed in pencil, lower right margin. Undated. Provenance: Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Collection, New York. Richards began his career as an illustrator in New York, sketching fashion collections for newspapers and beauty illustrations for brands such as L'Oréal and Revlon. He went on to create posters and illustrations for Broadway shows including Noel Coward‘s Present Laughter and Legs Diamond, one of the many shows he worked on for Peter Allen A friend to many musicians, he created album cover art for Sarah Vaughan, Lena Horne, Dinah Shore, and Peggy Lee. He devoted his last years to drawing gay erotic art both as fine art and for illustrations in Mandate and other publications.
ROBERT W. RICHARDS (1941-2019) Alvaro--The Rose Tattoo. Pencil and ink with fixative, on vellum. 12x4 1/2 inches, on 17x14-inch sheet. Signed in pencil, lower right margin. Undated. Provenance: Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Collection, New York. Richards began his career as an illustrator in New York, sketching fashion collections for newspapers and beauty illustrations for brands such as L'Oréal and Revlon. He went on to create posters and illustrations for Broadway shows including Noel Coward‘s Present Laughter and Legs Diamond, one of the many shows he worked on for Peter Allen A friend to many musicians, he created album cover art for Sarah Vaughan, Lena Horne, Dinah Shore, and Peggy Lee. He devoted his last years to drawing gay erotic art both as fine art and for illustrations in Mandate and other publications.
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