Letterman Painting

[shanley]

I have a very retro painting, oil on canvas, beige, orange, brown swirl. It is signed Letterman, can anybody help me find out who he is & if he has done anymore paintings? I can send a jpg of it to you if you would like to see.

[Poizonivy]

Mine is the resting cat too, it's a big white cat sitting ona sofa with blue eyes. it's definately an original. I really wish i could find out more about him. If anybody does email me  at [email protected] please

[BSUGrad]

My mother has a letterman painting, also 5x4 foot that she is no longer able to hang in a smaller house. It is an original on canvas. The painting is of three beautiful flowers in warm mauves and golden browns. She would love for it to go to a good home if any previous letterman owners are interested. Please feel free to respond as I would love to assure her that the painting would find a new place to be admired.

[dfcz79]

I just purchased a large painting this weekend 07/09/05 with the Letterman signature. I am poking around for information but the artist. Its obviously painted, but a previous posting here shows that I have the identical sailboat picture as someone else. So its not an original, but I love it and would like to know more about the artist. hopefully someone who knows will post her soon. I would love to know what it might be worth. Because I purchased for less than you could buy a canvas of that size.  

[MsTree]

I also have a Letterman. It's a stunning four foot by four foot renditino of an amarylis in full bloom. As with many of the other 'lettermans' i've seen or heard about, s/he seems to like to use heavy oils to add a certain dimension to his/her paintings. As with many of you, I really don't care if it's worth 10 cents or 10,000.00. I simply love the painting. I seriously wonder who this artist is. I suspect s/he was active in the sixties or seventies and has possibly died since then. I wonder how I would even begin to research this artist.

[dfcz79]

I just purchased a "LETTERMAN" painting. I did enough research to find out the the sailboat in my painting is in San Francisco Bay. I found a couple other letterman's online that are almost identical to mine. Still no word on the artist. Thought I would keep the postings alive though. Wish I had more information to give.

[silenthilled]

 I to have a letterman ,''the brown squares '' as I think it is called .It came from my uncle who really has no idea were it came from . My sister is a art professor and says she has see another one hanging in a bank somewhere north Kentucky.. I really wish we could find a bio on this guy or girl .Mine has been hanging up ,among  may more other paintings in the house and i simply love the piece.. ~

[markfrancis]

I nearly bought a Letterman in the mid-1980s - called "Sunlit Sails".  Some of you obviously have this painting from your descriptions.  Lettermans were mass-produced although they look like originals due to the thick acrylic paint.  The price back then was about $300 from memory.  Another version of the above painting is "Moonlight Sails".  If anyone has either of these paintings and would like to sell please let me know.  I am in Australia, by the way. 

[stpinuk]

I have a 'Letterman' as well.  A big, original oil painting of flowers.  I got it from an old girlfriend back in 1990...she owed me money.  I never got the money and she never got her painting back.  I'm living in England but I know the painting came from Idaho before finding its way here.  I'm redecorating a room and trying to find out if it has any value.  Anyone wanna buy it?  Let me know if you find anything out about the artist.

Ciao

Shawn

[PJammin]

I also have the 5' Letterman of the light blue, gray and beige palm trees. It has a tiny sailboat on the horizon. I just hung it for the 7th time since I bought it in 1987 at a JCPenney's in Little Rock, Arkansas. Perhaps we should contact the JCPenney's art buyers and see if they have more info on Letterman. I love my palm trees and have spent hours gazing at it imagining that I was there.

[PJammin]

I have the 5' x 4' Letterman beach scene at sunset with large gray-blue, beige and rust palm trees in the foreground and a small sailboat on the horizon. I bought it at JCPenney's in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1987 for about $250. I love it and am trying to decide how to clean it.

[2thumbsup]

I have a Letterman oil painting. 4x5 foot picture of a sailboat with a full moon. The background is a city with a cable bridge. Its mostly shades of blue. It was given to me and there is a tag on the back; Art Master Studios, 1355 Market St. San Francisco, CA [phone].

Eric

[tawonia]

I also have a letterman painting. It is a 5' x 4' painting of a pot of lillies in a peach and green. If anyone finds out anything please email me at [email protected]. Also if BSUGrad is still wanting to unload that painting, I am interested in owning another one. Please email me about it. Thank you.

[Joseph.h]

I recently purchased a painting of his for what I consider to be a fraction of its true worth. Judging by all the postings in here, and on how happy everyone is, including myself his artwork, should sell for no less than $2,500.00 dollars. The size and uniqueness of my painting certainly deems it to be worth that. I wish the beurocrats that make the art world valuable recognized this artist true worth. I have one that is 5'x4' in a nice fram, of a sailboat in the moolinght in the San Francisco bay, with the sillhoute of the city in the backdrop. It is the most unique painting of SF i have ever seen, and I love my painting. It sits in my living room, overlooking the san diego bay.

This guys work should be worth more than just a pennys find in a rummage/estate/or thirft store sale like the one I got mine in, I paid 100 for mine.

[Joseph.h]

Hi Everyone here seems to be a fan of :LETTERMAN .so in recapping everything I have read, this is the Scoop.No One knows who he is,His paintings arent dated but most people seem to think 60's 70' and 80's.Some actually bought the paintings at a store in the US called JC penny, which I beleive has gone out of bussiness. Nonetheless, JCpennys was a nice department store, like Macys.There are several prints of the same, Such as the one with the Cat, and mine, The one of a Midnights Sail, the full moon backdrop, sparkling water, brown orange tone sails, and the back drop is of San Francisco. It has a cable bridge "The Bay Bridge", with the silhouette ot transamerica building behind it. Not in the frame is Coit Tower because it should be behind the sail, a nice touch of the artist to have put the full spinnaker sail in that spot right next to it you have the base of the Bay Bridge, which if you've Sailed SF at night as I have, you'd kow that silhouette of the City quite well.

I propose the following.Some of the posting here are pretty past, 3 years almost.I will develope a website, and put as much infor as possible up that I can dig up.I will also take a pic of my frame and post it, if anyone else would be so kind to e-mail me a pic of your painting and where you bought it, I will make this guys work more notable, by giving him his own website for the beautiful frames he has given us, and then, maybe then someone will come forward and claim, to be him or know of him

[email protected]

San Diego, Ca. A SF Native.

[moniqueonset]

I too have found a letterman painting in a alley dumpster large 4ft. x 5ft orange and cream swirl like an ocrean wave almost.
wanna find out who he is also......

[moniqueonset]

I would be interested in SELLING it I see a few people interested in them. I do love this one its a great color. email if interested at [email protected]

[kmiller1013]

I also have the "resting cat" painting. Beautiful white cat on a brown couch, blue eyes, gold frame. I received the painting as a gift back in the 80's, still has the price tag on the back ($250). It's in mint condition. I'm looking to sell it because I just don't have the room for it now. If any one has info on the painter or where I can sell it please respond.

[Robert Renk]

I also have the Letterman cat, there is currently a Asian theme still life on Ebay right now. There is little information on them out there, but one poster was correct, they were mass produced for a major department store chain like J.C. Penney or Sears in the 1970s. The appear to be silkscreened with real painted accents to give the appearance of authentic original artworks.
I've spoken with other dealers and collectors around the country who have them for sale or see them around infrequently. They appear to sell for between $45. and $250.
I am in Portland, Oregon and am interested in getting more, because they are visually pleasing and dynamic (in a very camp kind of way).

[shmurray]

My boyfriend inheritated a set of Letterman paintings. Ours are sailboats in san francisco bay with a large moon in the background....Yes they are retro but look nice. I do know that my boyfriend's uncle bought them for a large sum of money right out of college. His uncle past away about 10 years ago.

[liveinforest]

I also have the Cat painting. I would like to find another.
Does anyone want to sell there Letterman Paintings??