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John Lennon
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Although Lennon achieved great success with the Beatles, one of the super groups of the 20th Century, his first love was art. Lennon began drawing long before he had a guitar and attended the Liverpool Art Institute from 1957 to 1960. Once the Beatles went full-time he continued to draw and this he did for the rest of his life. He would use pen, pencil or sumi ink and some of these there used as illustrations in the books he wrote during the 1960’s.
John Lennon saved a large number of important drawings, which in 1986 Yoko Ono began releasing as limited edition prints. He signed each print using a patented stamp, known as a chop, which comes from artists in the Orient. Lennon hand stamped each edition with a red stamp, which read “Like a cloud, beautiful sound”.
His work makes up may major collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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