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John Lennon ArtworkJohn Lennon Artwork is historic. Art was actually Lennon's first love. He began drawing long before he had a guitar, then attended the prestigious Liverpool Art Institute for three years (1957-60) before the Beatles became a full-time occupation. He continued to draw throughout his life. During his early years John began turning out a series of finely detailed line drawings, many of which were blistering caricatures of his teachers. He had given them names like Hairy Smelly Smith, Nick O’Teen and Warty Hairy B. Turner. Two of his drawings from 1952 titled Football and Indians appeared on the cover of his Walls and Bridges album in 1974. In 1970 he chose 14 drawings from the "Bag One" portfolio to be produced as stone lithographics in a limited edition intended to be sold in galleries. He personally signed each lithograph and attended the premier opening in London Lennon's drawings became illustrations for three best-selling books that he wrote in the 1960's. In addition, a complete suite of the "Bag One" portfolio of lithographs is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Original drawings are also being collected by museums throughout the world. John originally created a portfolio of drawings in 1969 which he entitled "Bag One". These drawings depicted John and Yoko's wedding and honeymoon and he presented them to her as a wedding gift. When the drawings were released as lithographs they were confiscated by police in several countries because the erotic contents of some of the drawings were considered to be obscene. Although the charges for obscenity never held up in court, many of the lithographs were destroyed by mishandling and John was discouraged from showing his artwork in public for many years after. John once said "If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life, and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness."
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