Hitchcock Directing Foreign Correspondent by Don Freeman

Hitchcock Directing Foreign Correspondent by Don Freeman

Hitchcock Directing Foreign Correspondent

Don Freeman

Title

Hitchcock Directing Foreign Correspondent

 
Artist

Don Freeman

  1908 - 1978 (biography)
Year
1940  
Technique
Lithograph 
Image Size
18 X 14 1/8 " image 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
35 or fewer 
Annotations
pencil titled 
Reference
McCalloch 124 
Paper
Rives cream wove 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
13509 
Price
SOLD
Description

Don Freeman had made a name for himself as a sought-after graphic artist, political satirist, portraitist and caricature artist. His work often centered on social commentary, everyday people and places, but in the 1930s and 40s his bread and butter came from his depiction of New York and Hollywood’s Golden Age elite. In “Hitchcock Directing Foreign Correspondent” his drawing skills and ease with the lithography medium are on full display. He captures the famous director in his element, from the director’s chair on a sound stage.

Foreign Correspondent is a 1940 American spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It tells the story of an American reporter who tries to expose enemy spies in Britain, a series of events involving a continent-wide conspiracy that eventually leads to the events of a fictionalized World War II. It stars Joel McCrea and features Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Bassermann, and Robert Benchley, along with Edmund Gwenn.