"At the Ready"is an original mixed-media work on paper by Philip Gladstone
Made with watercolor, pen-and-ink and colored pencils with sgraffito (scraping) on clay-coated paper
About:At the Ready is an inventive 'mashup' in homage to iconic images from the history of art, centered on Michelangelo's marble David, embellished with elements of Pablo Picasso's Guernica, against a backdrop of Roy Lichtenstein's monumental WHAAM!; a tattoo artist appropriated from Norman Rockwell's painting in the Brooklyn museum completes the composition
Signed by the artist with his monogram (PG) and dated "2022", lower right/center; signed again with the artist's full name and inscribed with the title on the reverse