LEGENDARY
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The below catalog is separated into sections (scroll down to view them all):
FRESH CUT • SIGNS • POSTCARDS • STRAAT MUSEUM
ON SET • CANVASES • MAPS
All pieces come with a gallery-issued Certificate of Authenticity
The FRESH CUT Collection
A series created in the spirit of grabbing the can and letting the drips flow.
The SIGNS Collection
Cornbread's most popular series over the years
Celebrating one of Philly Writers and Street Artists' favorite places to get up and be seen.
The POSTCARDS Collection
Vintage postcards, including those highlighting some of Cornbread's most famous moments such as tagging both an elephant at the Philadelphia Zoo and The Jackson 5's airplane at the Philadelphia Airport, along with early international aspirations
The STRAAT Museum (Amsterdam) Collection
Newspapers & European Street Signs from the 1960s and 1970s
This marked Cornbread's first major European museum solo exhibition in 2021. "Start This" was co-curated by Paradigm Gallery, working directly with STRAAT, as Cornbread and the Paradigm Team all traveled to Amsterdam to create and put all of the finishing touches on the exhibition in the weeks leading up to the opening, including the creation of a massive piece in the museum's permanent collection. The following pieces from the exhibition are being exhibited in America for the first time as part of "Legendary".
The ON SET Collection
Audrey's Children, a feature film set in Philadelphia from 1969 to 1974, invited Cornbread to appear in the background of the film to capture the spirit of Philadelphia at that time. Cornbread created this piece on screen during filming, which you'll see him doing in the still from the movie shown below it.
This is the first time this piece has been on display to the public.
The CANVAS Collection
In the 1960s, before graffiti even had that name, Cornbread viewed himself as a Writer but not an artist. It wasn't until more recent decades, once he saw how far graffiti and street art had come from the early days, that he began to explore what it would be like to put his famous mark on a surface that is more conventional for artists––the canvas.
The MAPS Collection
Cornbread would follow public transit routes to get up on walls entirely along specific routes. Most famously, he covered walls all along the bus route to and from school of his junior high crush, Cynthia, with variations of the phrase "Cornbread Loves Cynthia". This has inspired many artists over generations, including ESPO's (Steve Powers) "A Love Letter For You" Series along the Market/Frankford El in Philadelphia.
Cornbread also offers a nod to New York by including a series of New York transit maps in the series, along with the Philadelphia maps. He loved seeing how graffiti went from what Writers were doing in Philly to the vast expansion of what artists did in New York, especially in the subways and on trains. Graffiti has been tied to public transit and city travel since Cornbread's start in the 1960s, and it continues to be an important part of its history globally. Cornbread has been creating this series for over a decade. As cities are phasing out physical maps for their transit routes, each piece has started taking on new meaning in recent years.
