Jim Daly "When I Grow Up" Signed Limited Edition Print, 1992

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A pencil signed and numbered limited edition print of Jim Daly's "When I Grow Up," published by Mill Pond Press. … Read more A pencil signed and numbered limited edition print of Jim Daly's "When I Grow Up," published by Mill Pond Press. A boy lies awake in bed under a patchwork quilt, his cheek propped on his fist, gazing up past the windowsill at a full moon breaking through the night clouds. On the sill sit a worn leather baseball glove, a scuffed baseball, a wooden yo-yo, a few marbles and an enamel cup, and a brown and white spaniel rests its head on the bed beside him. A copy of McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader lies on the quilt.

Offset lithograph published from Daly's 1992 oil painting and printed in the U.S.A. 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 margin carries the title and the line "Published from an oil painting." The edition was 1,500 signed and numbered prints.

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 silver "20 Years of Fine Art" seal and edition label.

Image: 18 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches. Sheet: 23 5/16 x 19 5/16 inches. Unframed. See less