This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/31/2019
A regular contributor to the artwork on the cover of New Yorker magazine, artist Richard Merkin was remembered by writer Tom Wolfe upon Merkin's passing in 2009 as "an illustrator with an eccentric approach to modernist art. He used Modernism's all-over flat designs--that is, every square inch of the canvas was covered by flat, unmodulated blocs of color of equal value, creating not three but two dimensions--but his works were full of people, rendered in the same fashion, in comic poses and situations and extravagantly caricatured." That's true with this wildly colorful piece that features Hall of Fame umpire Bill Klem, known as the "Old Arbitrator" and the "father of baseball umpires. " Colors abound grace the surface of the irregular canvas, measuring approximately 19 1/2" by 30" and framed to a size of 24" x 34."