A Portrait of Shakespeare
A Portrait of Shakespeare.
Gouache on paper. One of the few surviving works from that era, 1965-66, Greenwich Village, New York, N.Y.
Taken from an ancient portrait. Of course there were many and no one knows what he really looked like. Some think Shakespeare was actually Jacob Marlow who lived in the same time period and died in a bar room brawl, but I'm inclined to think it was the famous bard who, like all Elizabethans of note in his day was reputed to speak proper English, which today is known as the Cockney Dialect. The portrait was featured on the album covers of a series of audio performances of his plays which I used to listen to while I worked. I also listened to a vast collection of vinyl 33 and a thirds which my mother loaned to me while I had the studio. She used to visit every Saturday and clean up the vast amount of clutter that had accumulated in the ensuing week
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