Authenticated JOHN KELLY "Dawn" Lithograph/Color Poster Hand Signed Framed Condition: pre-owned, some mild scratches on the wood frame. Dimensions: 32.5'x1'x28' If you have any questions please contact me! - John Kelly Multi-talented artist John Kelly is widely considered the greatest living maritime painter in the world. Kelly was born in Scotland, and lived in Canada as a child. His family were seafaring folk and he worked on four different ships as a merchant marine seaman off the Canadian and Alaskan coasts, which would later inspire much of his artwork. He is also musically talented, and was in nationally recognized performing groups, after which he studied at the Art Center College of Design, showing exceptional talent. Kelly studied under and collaborated with Lynton Kisteler resulting in distinctive maritime works, which are now in the Smithsonian Museum. Kelly is a painter, lithographer, multimedia artist, lecturer, instructor, and musician. Kelly was the first American artist to render landscapes of the People’s Republic of China in a lithographic suite after the governmental change. His publications and shows have been distributed in international locations like Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and Tahiti. The artist’s first hardcover book was printed by Collier Press in Kyoto Japan, 1984, at the famous Nissha printing village, and he has printed with the Ettinger Atelier in New York, as well as other noted studios worldwide. Some of his notable achievements include receiving awards from the mayors of San Francisco and Atlanta, being presented with the coat of arms of Glasgow, Scotland, winning the Quesnel Drawing Award, being named one of the top 100 artists in America by American Artist magazine and Best Artist of the Malibu Festival of Arts, California, and has also been a long-time Associate Member of the New York Pastel Society. Kelly has reached over 75,000 collectors worldwide and continues to create art, currently residing in Los Angeles