32"x22" Ltd Ed Signed Numbered Raccoon Print CLAM BAR by JOHN SCHOENHERR w/ COA

This charming limited edition print is hand signed by the artist and numbered 347/1000. It comes with a storage portfolio and certificate of authenticity. The print is in excellent condition. Information about the artist is included in item details below. Please carefully inspect photos for full condition and item details. Prior to entering college, John Schoenherr considered a career in biology. Fortunately for those of us who enjoy his work, he preferred drawing to dissection and opted for art. His interest in animals and rocks developed at an early age, and is reflected in his illustrations for science fiction and children's literature, and in his wildlife art. He was born in New York City in 1935. As a four-year-old he drew pictures to communicate with his friends, who spoke Chinese, Italian, Irish and Greek in the Babel of his Queens neighborhood. He spoke only German at home, as his German father and Hungarian mother were European immigrants. The desire to draw remained after he learned English, listening to his mother practice it as she read to him from the comic strips, and any available surface would do. When he was eight his parents gave him a set of watercolors, and soon after he was given oils. At thirteen he was taking the subway into Manhattan to attend Saturday classes at the Art Students League, where he studied etching and lithography under Will Barnet, whom Schoenherr later credited as "getting me to see and draw things realistically, instead of in a comic