Original Mix Media Painting- Acrylic on Canvas
12 x 12 Canvas
(Framed only by special request )
Inspired by Charles M. Schulz, introduced on July 31, 1968, Franklin was the first African American character in the strip. The inspiration behind the character came about from the back-and-forth correspondence between Schulz and one his readers, Harriet Glickman. Their letters to each other discussed in detail why the addition of a black character was important to readers and to America's own race relations. Glickman sent her first letter to the cartoonist two weeks after civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4th, 1968. This piece was created to showcase equality and love can exists in the year 2020.
