Yee-Haw Letterpress Serigraph Print of Link Wray "Inventor of the Power Chord"

Item Details

Not Signed

A circa 2000s Link Wray-themed serigraph print on paper titled Inventor of the Power Chord by Julie Belcher and Kevin Bradley of Knoxville, Tennessee’s Yee-Haw Letterpress. The work originates as No. 24 from the group’s American Folk Hero series and depicts a portrait of Wray styled after a Folk Art woodcut in a palette of brown, black and off-white. The print is titled to the top with large text of ‘Link Wray’ to the center and ‘Super Genius’ to the lower margin. Additional text throughout the print includes ‘Inventor of the Power Chord 1958, True Fact: He played the guitar so fast that they named Wray-dar after him. He was playing the rumble when all of today’s rocker’s were knocking out little yellow baby turds. From Dunn, North Carolina, American’. The poster is presented under conservation glass in a wooden frame fitted with hanging wire to the verso.

Condition

- slight toning to paper; nicks and wear to frame.

Dimensions

- measures frame; visible image measures 11.0" W x 19.0" H.

Item #

17MOR058-142