Richard Duardo The Screamers Serigraph 1980 AP1220

The kanji on the right leads us to suppose this was designed as an album or cd cover for the Japanese market. It also became a famous print in a larger format. As it stands you couldn't find a finer time capsule of the exhilarating mix of LA culture in the 80s, a seminal punk band imaged by a seminal Chicano artist. Measures 11 1/4" x 11 1/4". Unsigned. From his LA Times obituary by David Colker Nov. 16, 2014 Master art printer Richard Duardo, who was a pivotal figure in the Chicano art community in Los Angeles, died Tuesday at home in Los Angeles. He was 62. A gregarious, prominent figure in the downtown arts scene, he worked as a printer with numerous world-famous artists, including David Hockney, Keith Haring and Banksy. And his own creations — silk-screen portraits of Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Duke Ellington, Che Guevara, Lauren Bacall and many others — were highly praised. But it was his support for young artists, especially in the Chicano community, that brought forth dozens o