This is a rare opportunity to own original portrait done by famous artist when he was still young and enrolled in a museum program in Minnesota!!! He later went on to graduate from the Minneapolis School of Art in 1956 with a bachelor of fine arts degree in illustration.John Howard Sanden has been one of the nation's leading portrait artists for more than four decades.He has painted Presidents and first ladies to include George W Bush and first lady Barbara Bush which were unveiled at the white house in 2012. He has 348 commissioned portraits of figures in government, business, education, and the professions. He has written five books on portrait painting; he lectured on portraiture for twenty-five years at The Art Students League of New York.In 1994, Sanden received the John Singer Sargent Medal for Lifetime Achievement from the American Society of Portrait artists, and in 2005 he received the Founders' Gold Medal from the Portrait Society of America.-Purchases can be picked up at our Ho-ho-kus gallery by appointment only- Please call 201-921-6600.ALL small and medium sized items can be shipped in house-If you receive an invoice with shipping the item will be shipped in house---all others please call the ups store in Ridgewood NJ 201-612-8119

good vintage condition