Free Range & Howboy (detail left) is an eight color lithograph with hand applied 22K gold leaf on Grey Rives BFK paper 36 x 24”. It has been printed in an edition of 30, plus proofs. The publication price is $2000.

In Free Range & Howboy Hardy builds the figure of a cowboy with an assemblage of traditional tattoo iconography. The imagery includes a panther, anchor, eagle, dagger, ship, roses and flags. In the background are bluebirds and a blue bulldog floating in a field of stars and dots.

Hardy also completed five monotypes painting onto Plexiglas plates using thinned lithographic inks. Printed on Soft White Magnani Pescia paper, 30 x 22”, they are each $2500.

Don Ed Hardy is a painter, printmaker, and tattoo artist. His imagery has been spread far and wide by a phenomenally popular line of clothing. A scholar of tattoo history and lore, Hardy has curated exhibitions and written and published catalogs about the art of tattooing. He now focuses his work on painting, prints, drawing and ceramics.

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