Rick Barton, David Nelson, The Penis is an Angry Face, Running Elk, 1966, #55/100, SIGNED
Rick Barton, David Nelson, The Penis is an Angry Face, Running Elk, 1966, #55/100, SIGNED
Rick Barton, David Nelson, The Penis is an Angry Face, Running Elk, 1966, #55/100, SIGNED
Rick Barton, David Nelson, The Penis is an Angry Face, Running Elk, 1966, #55/100, SIGNED
Rick Barton, David Nelson, The Penis is an Angry Face, Running Elk, 1966, #55/100, SIGNED
Rick Barton, David Nelson, The Penis is an Angry Face, Running Elk, 1966, #55/100, SIGNED
Rick Barton, David Nelson, The Penis is an Angry Face, Running Elk, 1966, #55/100, SIGNED
Rick Barton, David Nelson, The Penis is an Angry Face, Running Elk, 1966, #55/100, SIGNED
Rick Barton, David Nelson, The Penis is an Angry Face, Running Elk, 1966, #55/100, SIGNED
Rick Barton, David Nelson, The Penis is an Angry Face, Running Elk, 1966, #55/100, SIGNED
Rick Barton, David Nelson, The Penis is an Angry Face, Running Elk, 1966, #55/100, SIGNED
Rick Barton, David Nelson, The Penis is an Angry Face, Running Elk, 1966, #55/100, SIGNED

Rick Barton, David Nelson, The Penis is an Angry Face, Running Elk, 1966, #55/100, SIGNED

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Barton, Rick, David Nelson, San Francisco: Running Elk, 1966. Fine quarto portfolio, 9" x 11",  .
#55/100, signed by Barton and Nelson.

Fine quarto sienna card stock portfolio, cream label affixed to front. 42 leaves laid in loose as issued. Title page with limitation number two stamps in red ink, Barton and Nelson's signatures in pen. 42 circular block prints in black ink printed by Andrew Hoyem on Curtis rag paper. Barton's architectural facades, male nudes, and portraits, including members of Barton's inner circle like his publisher, Harold La Vigne, his lover, filmmaker Kenneth Anger, and his collaborator, David Archer Nelson. Scarce in the trade in such excellent condition. Provenance: from the library of a private collector and friend of Nelson.

Rick Barton, (1918-1992) was only recently discovered as a significant figure in the San Francisco Beat era, a queer artist whose work was deeply influenced by his time in Asia when he served in the military. Barton captured the bohemian North Beach cafe culture with his unique and often surreal line drawings.  Barton suffered from mental illness and fell into obscurity in the 70s, but due to the foresight of printer and publisher, Henry Evans, Barton's abandoned work was donated to UCLA and later exhibited at The Morgan Library & Museum in 2022. 

David Archer Nelson (1941-) is a working artist who was mentored by Barton in the 60s. He is a reverse glass painter and sculptor whose work has been featured in Start Trek, National Geographic and book cover designs for Issac Asimov and Larry Niven.