Painting The Town: The Art of Nate McClain: Collected Works of Nate McClain (1973 - 1997)

By Nate McClain Gallery

Nate McClain (1973 - 1997) was an American visual artist from St. Louis, Missouri best known for his large-scale murals which have gained posthumous acclaim. Painting The Town: The Art of Nate McClain is a 150-page definitive collection of Nate McClain's artwork, spanning his first published piece at age 4 to his untimely death at age 24. Features over 130 of McClain's original paintings, vibrant portraits, & early works. "...we lost a great, great artist. Being able to do those paintings of the Self Portrait, the John Belushi, the Guy at Bar at 18, 19, 20 years old...Truly, he was a fabulous artist. Watercolors, drawings, cartoons. His paintings blew me away, his drawings blew me away. He could have gone anywhere. He could have done anything." - Mike Peters, Pulitzer-winning cartoonist and creator of "Mother Goose & Grimm" "Nate McClain was a genuinely exuberant painter with a real feeling for the times he lived in, mixing his irrepressible sense of fun with a deep sensitivity to suffering and pain. He enhanced the lives of the people around him with his public art, and it's a tragedy that his career was cut short when it had only just begun." - Julian Spalding, English art critic, author, and former curator "Nate made one sweeping circular line to draw a face already formed in his brain. I remarked to myself, 'Wow! He knows exactly what he wants to do (draw).'" - Shelli Lipton, founder of Hello Studios, Inc.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541381130
• ISBN13: 9781541381131
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.4" x 8.5"