Howard Moo Young — Original Pencil Portrait of Bob Marley, Peter Tosh & Bunny Wailer, Signed

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Original estate drawing by the late, award-winning Jamaican artist Howard Moo Young. A rare graphite portrait honoring Bob Marley, Peter … Read more Original estate drawing by the late, award-winning Jamaican artist Howard Moo Young. A rare graphite portrait honoring Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Wailer.

Rendered entirely in graphite, this hand-drawn work captures the spirit, individuality, and legacy of reggae’s founding voices through expressive shading and fine pencil detail. With the artist now deceased, this piece represents estate artwork, making it a rare and finite example of Moo Young’s contribution to Jamaican visual culture.

Ideal for collectors of Caribbean art, music history, or statement pieces for refined interiors, studios, and cultural spaces.

Provenance: Private collection
Signed and dated 2010
Open to serious offers

This is a one-of-a-kind original. No reproductions exist.

Howard Moo Young is a graduate of The School of Visual Arts, New York, in Advertising and Graphic Design. He is an award-winning creative director, graphic designer, artist and photographer with over 40 years experience. His peers recognized his contribution to the advertising industry with an award of 30 Years of Excellence in Advertising”from The Advertising Agencies Association of Jamaica. He has won many trophies for his award-winning television commercials and advertisements in the print media, and has designed some of the leading corporate images and logos for the financial, business and entertainment sectors including National Commercial Bank (NCB), Victoria Mutual Building Society (VMBS), Pan Caribbean Merchant Bank, Jamaica Money Market Brokers (JMMB), Jamaica Stock Exchange, UNIONBANK, HEART TRUST, QUAD (Night Clubs), Christopher’s Jazz Café, National Works Agency (NWA), Shields & Shields, Eden Gardens, KEYCARD and others.

Howard won a Silver and Bronze medal in the 1979 Commonwealth Photography Exhibition in Edmonton, Canada, and was the recipient of the Centenary Medal for Photography from The Institute of Jamaica that same year. Howard received the Champion Photographer Award for 1982 in the JCDC Festival National Photography Competition winning 5 Gold, 5 Silver, 7 Bronze Medals and 22 Merit Awards. He became Champion Photographer again in 2003 winning more medals and also a Bronze Medal in Fine Arts. That same year, Howard was inducted into the Caribbean Development For The Arts & Culture Foundation’s HALL OF FAME.

He died in 2023 at the age of 80. See less