MURRAY TINKELMAN (1933-2016) Kremlin in troubled times.
Editorial illustration for the article "The Sakharov Memorandum" by Andrei D. Sakharov published in The New York Times August 18, 1972. Ink on Strathmore bristol board. 530x381 mm; 21x15 inches, image, mounted to slightly larger board. Signed and dated "M. Tinkelman `72" in lower right. Provenance: Estate of the artist. This excerpt was taken from the longer article, a human rights appeal by Sakharov, the Soviet academician and Committee of the Rights of Man member, to Leonid I. Brezhnev, written in March of 1971. A tear sheet of the article accompanies the artwork.
Murray Tinkelman was an award-winning artist who has received illustration's highest honors from the Society of Illustrators, New York Art Directors Club, and The Society of Publications Designers. His work appeared in a variety of publications including "Atlantic Monthly," "Cosmopolitan," "Ladies Home Journal," "McCall's," "The New York Times," "The Saturday Evening Post," and "The Washington Post." In addition to those, he worked for publishers such as Ballantine, Berkley, Doubleday, Putnam, HBJ, Macmillan and Time Life, among many others. Tinkelman was commissioned by the National Park Service to do drawings and paintings of national parks and monuments, as well as by the U.S. Air Force to be an artist-reporter on specific missions. His shows included a one-man exhibit of his baseball art at The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York in 1994, and The United States Sports Academy in Daphne, Alabama in 1995.
