Artist: John Bissell (American, b. 1938)
Title: Sir Richard
Date: 1975
Accession#: 03.08.225
Medium: Lithograph on paper
Dimensions: 14 x 17 in.
Acquired by: Bob Woodward
About the Artist: John Bissell was born in 1938 and attended Lincoln Elementary and Washington High School, graduating from the Governor Dummer Academy, a Massachusetts boarding school, in 1957. He received a bachelor of fine arts degree from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1964 and a master’s from the University of Iowa in 1966. He worked in graphic design for 18 years, first at the 3M Company in Chicago and then in Dubuque at Frank Hardie Advertising and Fishy Whale Press in Rockford, Illinois.