Trying to find the artist of a painting?

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I'm trying to find a print of a painting. My father had a print of this painting laminated yet my dog managed to chew it up.
I've looked in ebay for this picture and over the web but I'm not having much luck.
Its of a male clown from the waist up with a flower in his hat/hand and he is very sad it has a green blue background and looks like very rushed/large brush strokes of oil paint.
Has anyone seen this picture and know of its title or possible have a print and would be willing to part with it (obviously I would pay for it!) My father had this print for 20 years and is very sad. So I want to make up for it. Thank you.

Close... but its a sad clown, his top hat looks crumpled almost and he has I think a yellow flower in either his hand or his hat... its done in oils, and I'm looking for a print of this painting.

Answer 1

I was ready to post this half an hour ago, and then I somehow got cut off and couldn't get back online... Anyway...

What you describe sounds very, very familiar, but I can’t quite put my finger on it. In my mind's eye I see a type of clown portrait that was pretty popular in around the 1970s and maybe beyond (sort of like the Margaret Kean big-eyed waifs), I believe and, in particular, one of a frontally painted forlorn-looking clown looking straight at the viewer, with his head slightly tilted to one side, crumpled top hat, and holding a many-petaled flower (like a big daisy or the like).

Could it have been a painting by Barry Leighton-Jones?
http://www.leighton-jones.com/clown_paintings_and_prints.htm
(The first one even appeared on the wall of an old-age home in the "Mr. Hadley" Coca Cola commercial about a year ago.)

And I was thinking of portraits of Emmett Kelly, when I found this (also about Leighton-Jones):
“Jones is probably best known for his portraits of the world's most famous clown tramp, Emmett Kelly (1898-1979). Kelly was an American circus performer who created the clown figure "Weary Willie" based on the hobos of the Depression. Jones was the official artist to Kelly's estate in the 1980s and early 1990s. He created over 50 paintings and hundreds of drawings and prints of Kelly. At the age of 75, Jones is still active and accepts commissions for anywhere from 5,000 BP and higher. Notable collectors of his works include King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Margaret Thatcher, Lord Arden, and The Ringling Brothers Museum in Sarasota.”
http://www.goantiques.com/detail,barry-leighton-jones,1401835.html

Comedian Red Skelton also did a number of clown paintings, both of himself (“Freddie the Freeloader”) and of others:
http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9709/17/red.skelton/clown.jpg
http://www.exoticfineart.com/red_skelton.html

Another clown painter was Chuck Oberstein:
http://www.artshow99.com/Oberstein/index.html

But from what you say of the style, of these three, it would seem more to be something by Leighton-Jones... unless, that is, it’s by someone else completely. But if the artist was an unknown, I doubt that prints would have been made of it.

Answer 2

Famous Clown Paintings

Answer 3

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Trying to find the artist of a painting?
I'm trying to find a print of a painting. My father had a print of this painting laminated yet my dog managed to chew it up.
I've looked in ebay for this picture and over the web but I'm not having much luck.
Its of a male clown from the waist up with a flower in his hat/hand and he...

Answer 4

Any good frame shop will have catalogs of prints. The books will be indexed by image type: landscapes, animals, photography, portraits, etc. You might look under portraits or images for children. They will tell you the available sizes of prints and posters. Prices are very reasonable and order time should be only a week or two.
Given the age of the print, you might consider two painters who famously painted clown pictures from that era. One was the comic and actor Red Skelton, and the other was circus clown Emmett Kelly. Good-luck.

Answer 5

Oberstein Clown Prints

Answer 6

It ,ight be a print of Emett Kelly, a famous clown. Not sure of the spekking. I recall a similar painting i saw as a child. I really liked it and was told it was Kelly. I'm 43 and was told the painting was "pretty old" then. Hope it helps. Try Yahoo images.

Answer 7

can i paint that for you i am an atist.

Answer 8

hi redelle! its long back seeing you, Hope definitely you will get it.
Take care

Answer 9

http://theatre.indiana.edu/guests/bio/marceau.html

Maybe this...??? Good luck hope you find it!