STORIES ABOUT ODDBALLS AND THOSE WHO DON'T PLAY BY THE RULES OF NORMAL SOCIETY
JOE COLEMAN
Joe Coleman is a painter living in Brooklyn, New york, was born in 1955. His intricate work of unusual subjects including famous and no so famous outlaws, movie stars, serial killers, artists, and family and friends. He uses a jewelers loupe. A great deal of detail is not visible to the naked eye, painting with a single hairbrush.
His style can be considered comic book illustration. The painting of Henry lee Lucas was purchased for the movie poster for the movie Henry: portrait of a serial killer, but not used, as the studio was nervous that it would be controversial. Never mind the subject matter, eh
?Among those who own Coleman's paintings are Leonardo Dicaprio,Iggy Pop, johnny Depp. Here are the subjects he's painted:
- Grover Bergdoll
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Boxcar Bertha
- Jack Black
- Albert Fish
- Harry Houdini
- Paul John Knowles
- Charles Manson
- David Owsle
- Hasil Adkins
- Carl Panzram
- Quantrill's Raiders
- Hank Williams
- Mary Bell
- Kip Kinkel
- Timothy McVeigh
- Edward Teller
- Indian Larry
- Celine
- Johnny Eck
- Carlo Gesualdo
- Larry Desmedt
- Jayne Mansfield
- Mary Bell
- George Grosz
- Ed Gein
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