John Wayne Enterprises "Courage is Being Scared to Death but Saddling Up Anyway" 28" x 37.5" Custom Matted Fine Art Giclee on Paper (PA LOA)

Appropriately titled with a quote widely attributed to John Wayne, this color giclee shows The Duke at a campfire with a beautiful background of mountains – circa 1978. The art was created using a digital image of the original negative by photographer David Sutton.  David Sutton had been a photographer since his early teens when he studied under such tutors as the famed photographer, Margaret Bourke-White. World War II pulled Sutton out of New York City and threw him into combat photography. After the war and a brief stint with Life Magazine, he came west to open his own studio. Sutton’s reputation as a photographer stems in part from being consistently published in top magazines around the world. He shot such celebrities as Paul Newman, John Wayne, and Frank Sinatra.

Measures 28" x 37.5" SRP $1,195 ©David Sutton

John Wayne

Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed The Duke, was an American actor and filmmaker. An Academy Award-winner for True Grit (1969), Wayne was among the top box office draws for three decades. Wayne's career took off in 1939, with John Ford's Stagecoach making him an instant star. He went on to star in 142 pictures. Biographer Ronald Davis said, "John Wayne personified for millions the nation's frontier heritage. Eighty-three of his movies were Westerns, and in them, he played cowboys, cavalrymen, and unconquerable loners extracted from the Republic's central creation myth."

Wayne's other well-known Western roles include a cattleman driving his herd north on the Chisholm Trail in Red River (1948), a Civil War veteran whose young niece is abducted by a tribe of Comanches in The Searchers (1956), and a troubled rancher competing with a lawyer for a woman's hand in marriage in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962). He is also remembered for his roles in The Quiet Man (1952), Rio Bravo (1959), and The Longest Day (1962). In his final screen performance, he starred as an aging gunfighter battling cancer in The Shootist (1976). He appeared with many important Hollywood stars of his era, and his last public appearance was at the Academy Awards ceremony on April 9, 1979

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