ARTIST: Ken Auster (California, 1949 - 2016)
TITLE: Flowers from a Friend
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Very good. No visible inpaint under UV light.
ART SIZE: 16 x 20 inches / 40 x 50 cm
FRAME SIZE: 24 x 27 inches / 60 x 68 cm
SIGNATURE: lower left
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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SKU#: 127446
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BIOGRAPHY:
Raised in Long Beach, Ken Auster early established a reputation as the surfers' artist, having designed and executed numerous surfer-motif tee shirts in silk screen.He was swept up in the surfing craze, which led him to Hawaii where he worked for a T-shirt company and learned screen painting. These skills supported him when he returned to California and majored in illustration at California State University, Long Beach. He worked from a garage and printed hundreds of commercial T-shirts, which became a large operation called California T-Shirts. For more than a decade, the shirt is became signature casual wear for surfers and were sold through 26 of Auster's retail outlets.