Created and Sold by Tom Sanford

Cerulean Warbler

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Tom Sanford, a Harlem-based artist whose work is considered a sort of lowbrow conceptual art. He created the Cerulean Warbler that can be found on 601 West 149th Street in New York. It depicts American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter John James Audubon with his warbler. Tom's works are exhibited extensively in museums and galleries around the world.

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“Tom Sanford is a Harlem-based artist whose work is exhibited extensively in museums and galleries around the world. His paintings, which might be considered a sort of lowbrow conceptual art, reflect a deep ambivalence about the American cultural condition. His subjects are numerous and vary widely, ranging from history paintings depicting celebrity assassinations, to icon paintings of gangsta rappers, to elaborate cosmologies weaved together from Hollywood movies to contemporary genre paintings of bars and subways cars. Most recently the artist has been commissioning copies of old master paintings from workshops in China and painting over them in his studio. Tom was born in Bronxville NY in 1975 and later received a BA from Columbia University then an MFA from Hunter College.” Follow Tom on instagram @uberkunst