Friends of Northside College Prep – Reach for the Stars 2015
Auction Ends: Mar 16, 2015 10:00 PM CDT

Art

Patsy Cline Artwork by Jon Langford

Item Number
204
Estimated Value
400 USD
Sold
525 USD to Rambler64
Number of Bids
7  -  Bid History

Item Description

Patsy Cline artwork by Jon Langford is a signed limited edition print (9 of 15) hand-finished on board.

Jon Langford  is a prolific and respected visual artist. He is best known for his striking portraits of country & rock music icons including Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley but his interests and subjects range far and wide. His punk rock instincts and unparalleled draftsmanship come together in a painting style that is distinctive, engaging and challenging.  His paintings appear on cd's (his own and other's), book covers, as well as beer bottles for the Dogfish Head Brewery. His multimedia music/spoken-word/video performance, "The Executioner's Last Songs," premiered at Alverno College in 2005, and has been performed in several other cities, including Austin. He illustrated the comic strip  Great Pop Things  under the pseudonym Chuck Death. Since 2005 he has co-hosted a weekly radio program, "The Eclectic Company," broadcast on WXRT 93.1 FM in Chicago. He has contributed to  This American Life .

Langford is from Wales but has lived in Chicago since the early 1990's.  Langford was originally the drummer for the punk band The Mekons when it formed at the University of Leeds in 1977, but he later took up the guitar as other band members left. Since the mid-1980s he has been one of the leaders in incorporating folk and country music into punk rock. He has released a number of solo recordings as well as recordings with other bands outside of The Mekons, most notably the Waco Brothers, which he co-founded after moving to Chicago in the early 1990s. He is involved with the Chicago-basedindependent record label Bloodshot.

 

"NCP" is a watermark and does not appear on the actual piece.

Donated By:

Jonathan Langford & Helen Tsatsos