Joe Funk (1917–1981) 1940s California Harbor litho. Numbered 3 of 18. Combined shipping available,e please inquire. Shipping times are significantly shorter than Chairish estimates. "Joe Funk played a little-known but important role in the development of American lithography during the 1950s and 1960s," said Tamarind Institute director Clinton Adams, "first as Lynton Kistler's assistant and later as the initial printer-fellow at Tamarind Lithography Worksop in Los Angeles. That was a time when fine lithographic printing hung by a slender thread in the United States: unlike today, there were then only a very few dedicated printers with knowledge of the craft. Joe was one of this small number, without whom the present health of the medium could not have come about. His easy-going warmth and good nature made it a pleasure to work with him." His work is in public museum collections, including at the Art Institute of Chicago, Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, the Smithsonian American Art Museum.