Rebel - BW - James Dean

by Fred Larucci

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9.000 x 12.000 inches

Title

Rebel - BW - James Dean

Artist

Fred Larucci

Medium

Drawing - Graphite Pencils, Strathmore 96lb. Sheet Stock Board Paper

Description

(2016) "Rebel" James Dean - Cover Art Commission piece for "The Original Van Gogh's Anthology" Volume 10 - Personal Commission piece done for Van Gogh's Ear Special James Dean Tribute Edition with connection to the Dean Family in Indiana.

James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) was an American actor. He is remembered as a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and social estrangement, as expressed in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in which he starred as troubled teenager Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his stardom were loner Cal Trask in East of Eden (1955) and surly ranch hand Jett Rink in Giant (1956).

As the group traveled to the event via U.S. Route 466 (currently SR 46), at approximately 5:45 p.m] a 1950 Ford Tudor was passing through an intersection while turning left, ahead of the oncoming Porsche. Dean, unable to stop in time, slammed into the passenger's side of the Ford, resulting in Dean's car bouncing across the pavement onto the side of the highway. Dean's passenger, Wütherich, was thrown from the Porsche, while Dean was trapped in the car and sustained numerous fatal injuries, including a broken neck. The driver of the Ford, Donald Turnupseed, exited his damaged vehicle with minor injuries. The accident was witnessed by a number of passersby who stopped to help. A woman with nursing experience attended to Dean and detected a weak pulse, but "death appeared to have been instantaneous". Dean was pronounced dead on arrival shortly after he arrived by ambulance at the Paso Robles War Memorial Hospital at 6:20 p.m.

After his death in a car crash, Dean became the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, and remains the only actor to have had two posthumous acting nominations. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him the 18th best male movie star of Golden Age Hollywood in AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars list.

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December 11th, 2020

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