Acrylic, Stabilo pencil, charcoal, and soluble marker on wood panel, signed to lower right, labeled to verso, presented in a white painted wood frame.

Frame dimensions 39 x 48 1/4 in.

From the Estate of the late John Stephen McLachlin, Florida

John Stephen McLachlin served four decades for The Daytona News-Journal as it's first full-time art director and as it's cartoonist. He retired in 2000, after four decades of award-winning page designs, story illustrations and freewheeling cartoons. McLachlin was born in New Jersey, grew up in Missouri and arrived in Florida as a teenager when his parents moved to Ormond by the Sea in the early 1950s. In his Ormond Beach studio, McLachlin produced paintings that were big, bold and abstract, often with Native American themes. He blended wood, metal and ordinary objects into sculptures that appeared organic. He collected, restored and replicated antique firearms, specializing in Kentucky Longrifles. After retirement, he opened The Art of Restoration, a business devoted to restoring antique paintings and furniture, as well as weapons.

Good estate condition.