Jim Daly "Secret Admirer" Signed Limited Edition Print, 1992

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A pencil signed and numbered limited edition print of Jim Daly's "Secret Admirer," released by Mill Pond Press in February … Read more A pencil signed and numbered limited edition print of Jim Daly's "Secret Admirer," released by Mill Pond Press in February 1993. A little girl with long golden curls sits at an old wooden school desk in a rose-colored dress with a wide lace collar, holding a homemade "Be My Valentine" card with a red heart and gazing off to the side. Arithmetic problems are chalked on the blackboard behind her.

Offset lithograph printed by Classic Art on acid-free, pH neutral coated paper, published from Daly's 1992 oil painting on canvas. Pencil signed "Jim Daly" at lower right and numbered 331/1500 at lower left, with the plate signature "Jim Daly © 1992" in the image. The edition was 1,500 signed and numbered prints plus 76 artist's proofs.

Jim Daly was born in 1940 in Holdenville, Oklahoma, and studied at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. He is known for his American genre paintings of children and everyday life, and Mill Pond Press and The Greenwich Workshop published his work as limited edition prints for more than 30 years. U.S. Art magazine named him to its Hall of Fame in 1992.

Comes with the original Mill Pond Press folder with its seal and edition label and the certificate of authenticity.

Image: 18 5/8 x 14 7/8 inches. Sheet: 23 3/8 x 19 3/8 inches. Unframed. See less