$9000 retail
‘Past Time of Signs’, oil on panel, 30” x 24”, 2024
In this homage to lettering and signage from the history of tattooing from around the world, era’s gone by, overlapping and intertwined, tattoo is the destination.
- CHARLIE WAGNER, BOWERY, NYC, USA, 1920’S
- GEORGE BURCHETT, LONDON, ENGLAND, 1930
- MILDRED HULL, BOWERY, NYC, USA, 1935
- THE BOWERY, NYC, USA, 1942
- WILL SPIEGEL, HAMBURG, GERMANY, 1948
- LES SKUSE, BRISTOL, ENGLAND, 1950’S
- TUSCH-PETER, AARHUS, DENMARK, 1956
- MILTON ZEIS, USA
- BERT GRIMM, THE PIKE, LONG BEACH, USA
- LEEROY MINUGH, THE PIKE, LONG BEACH, USA
- BROOKLYN BLACKIE, CONEY ISLAND, 1961, USA
- LOS ANGELES TATTOO STUDIO, USA, 1970’S
- WEST COAST TATTOO STUDIO, USA, 1970’S
- LYLE TUTTLE TATTOO, SF, USA, 1976
- TATO JACK , COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, 1977
- SEATTLE TATTOO EMPORIUM, USA, 1981
- FELIX LEU, SWITZERLAND, 1980’S
- TIN-TIN TATOUAGES SHOP, PARIS, FR, 2000’S
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$8,000 retail
I took photos of Lyle on a visit to his home in Ukiah, CA in 2018. This image transpired after days of conversation in his well documented workshop.
$8000 retail
‘Lyle Tuttle’s Gypsy Chuck Wagon, Ukiah, CA', oil on panel, 24” x 30”, 2020
Lyle’s well documented gypsy caravan / chuck wagon, sitting in his backyard in Ukiah, CA. Lyle acquired the chuck wagon from long time friend, ‘Mr. Side Show’, the sword swallower, fire-eater, human blockhead and tattooed circus man, Captain Don Leslie. In the late70’s into the 1980’s, Lyle would spend time on board the wagon at McNabb Ranch, about 20 miles south of Ukiah.
$7,500 retail
'Pharoah's Horses Study (after John Frederick Herring and Sailor Jerry), oil on panel, 24" x 36", 2020
As tattooists, part of our craft is recreating pre-existing classic themes and images within the tattoo language. This is my intepretation on the Pharoah’s Horses concept, utilizing Sailor Jerry’s flash mixed with the classical painted style of John Frederick Herring.
$8000 retail
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$3500 retail
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‘Tin-tin’s Toilette, Paris, France’, oil on panel, 48” x 36”, 2016
I walked into Tin-Tin Tatouage’s Paris tattoo shop bathroom for the first time and was overwhelmed with the density of tattoo magazine clippings glued to the walls and ceiling. Scanning through the purposefully placed photos of tattoo artist friends and well documented tattoos from the last thirty years was a pleasant surprise. These tight fitting quarters gives the sitter more than enough visual chaos to keep them busy while they do their business. I immediately knew that I would paint this special water closet.
I visited Lil’ Tokyo Jiro’s tattoo shop in Los Angeles, Onizuka Tattoo. Entering through the back of the building, there was tattooing happening upstairs, and downstairs in the basement, a little more tattooing. Walking further back into the underground depths of Little Tokyo through walk-in cooler plastic curtains, Jiro’s workshop revealed itself as a productive cavern of machine building madness.
For pricing, Inquire via email- sdbarber@gmail.com
For pricing, Inquire via email- sdbarber@gmail.com
$3,000 retail