$74.00
giclee print vintage tattoo flash owen jensen folk art $ maker los angeles 18x24
reproduction "giclèe" fine art archival print, huge 18x24 inches, high resolution scanned directly and color matched from rare original hand colored (possibly and looks to be hand colored by owen himself) production owen jensen money maker tattoo flash from the 1940s most likely.
The 18x24 inch fine art print was professionally printed, scanned and color matched to the original photo and produced on archival matte, thick-weight 100 paper using only fade-resistant, archival, pigment-based inks. this print is the closest to the original one as could be possibly made.
the first two images for the listing are screen shots of the electronic file. the next photo with the pen is actual photo taken of the print itself so the clarity of the print can be seen. the color of the print is closer to the screen shots. this one looks insanely good.
from www: "Owen Jensen was born in 1891 in Pleasant Grove, Utah. As a young man he worked in the railroad shop in Ogden, Utah. Jensen has said that in 1911 he walked 12 miles to Provo to see the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show and that was where he saw his first tattooed man. Owen Jensen got his first tattoo in 1913 from Bob Hodge on the Lucky Bill Show. Because he had skills as a machinist, Jensen was offered a part time job working in a machine shop making tattooing machines. He was interested in how the tattoo machines worked, and soon he became a tattooist. Jensen enlisted in World War 1 serving overseas. Jensen tattooed while in the service, but he learned how to draw flash later. When he returned to Pleasant Grove, Jensen built himself a trunk tattoo outfit and hit the road. In the following years, Jensen tattooed at several shows and in cities in Colorado and Wyoming. In 1923 Jensen headed for Los Angeles and when he first arrived the fleet was out so he took a foundry job. Owen Jensen married Dainty Dotty, a famous circus fat lady. It is said he also tattooed her. Weighing in at 600 pounds, Dotty was not considered the largest woman on record, but she was perhaps the largest female tattooist. Dotty died from a heart ailment in December 1952. On July 5, 1976, some young punks attacked Jensen, sticking a knife in his back and badly beating then robbing him. Owen Jensen never recovered from that beating. He died shortly afterward."
price:
$74.00
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add $5, shipped first class in USA
add $15, shipped to canada, first class, insured.
add $25, shipped worldwide (except Canada), first class, insured.
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