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THE MANY FACES AND FACETS of DON KRACKE. The World’s Most Versatile Fine Artist...
Don Kracke has achieved great success as an artist, author and inventor. His paintings, drawings, sculpture, stabiles, serigraphs, books and new product ideas have generated revenue exceeding a billion dollars at retail over the past Thirty years.
A child prodigy, Kracke started his formal fine arts training at The Chicago Art Institute when he was eight. He continued his studies at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. His first piece of art was purchased in 1944, just before his family moved from Illinois to California.
Kracke was an honor art student at Whittier Union High School, where his cartooning for the newspaper won him several national awards.
Don received his BA degree in Art with a minor in English from UCLA in 1954. While there, he was one of the 11 founding members of the prestigious and acclaimed Project India Group. After graduation, he spent two years as a USAF officer writing and directing training films.
Kracke's diverse and successful 62 years of selling his art have revolved around his exceptional design skills that have earned him 217 national awards for creative and design excellence. Sears, Target, Coca Cola, General Mills, Mattel, Campbell Soups, Wal-Mart Stores and Rubbermaid are among the clients who have retained him as a design and creative consultant.
Don is the author of the Doubleday best-seller, HOW TO TURN YOUR IDEA INTO A MILLION DOLLARS. He has also had five other books published and co-written two nation-ally syndicated comic strips. With Rodger Johnson, he designed the titles for the movie Star Trek II.
Kracke has appeared on Nightline, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The CBS Evening News, and thirty-one other television and talk-radio shows as an author and expert in new product design. When Regis asked if he were a millionaire, Don replied with a wry smile, "I wrote about how to make a million, not how to keep it."
Because of his successes and excellent presentation skills, Don is in demand as a speaker at universities and business meetings worldwide.
Patterns of Power, When Don was looking for inspiration for his latest suite of paintings, he turned to the Pictographs and Petroglyphs of the caves of the Southwest.
As he stated recently, “The purity and honesty of Rock Art Designs are absolute. As are the exciting, child-like, visual happenings that are created by my working on an unforgiving, granite-esque surface."
Add to that the fact that the designs on each of my figures’ torsos represents a particular Shaman’s distinctive PATTERN OF POWER, and you have an intriguing basis for the meanings of each of my work...
These 4 museum quality Giclee prints are in a limited edition of 600 sets. Each 7" X 10" image is printed on an 11" X 14" 100% acid free archival cotton paper and is individually signed and numbered by Don. This set can be yours for only $300
For a limited time, each order includes a signed first edition of Kracke's new book at no additional cost.
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