Ernie Wolfe Gallery

40+ years in Los Angeles — Field collected contemporary and traditional African Art uniquely juxtaposed with American Artists
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@ATRightMovies Here’s a 1994 handpainted Ghanaian movie poster by Joe Mensah of this legendary film. This was painted for a local movie house to introduce Ghanaian audiences to worldwide cinema and is part of our gallery’s collection of Golden Age film posters from Ghana 🇬🇭🇺🇸

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Happy post Fourth of July to you all! – Don the Dragon Wilson literally kicks his way to glory in this action-packed Golden Age beauty! Bloodfist II, Leonardo, 1991, oil on canvas
#ghana #movieposter #art #africanart #africanartist #posterart #movieposters #africa #handpainted

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#FAVFriday (1) front of Nii Anum’s studio, near Accra, Ghana, 2009 with his seven headed dragon FAV (2) Juxtaposed with the deep and rich impasto of American artist James Hayward’s chromachord paintings #Ghana #AfricanArt #Sculpture #Wood #Dragon #Apocalpyse #Africa

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Dig this boxing muscle-ola beauty by Leonardo — — this Golden Age hand-painted movie poster from Ghana, painted by Leonardo in 1996 for local Ghanaian audiences, is an absolute classic! Featured in @TASCHEN’s limited edition book and on p. 331 of EC 2

#rocky #rocky4 #stallone

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....“ —RIP, yee of the great Marvelosity! – – and what a perfect V body! – – his muscles look so good naturally that they don’t even really need the usual Ghanaian treatment! ....”....

—EW III
#ghanamovieposter #ghanamovieposters #indio #ripmarvinhagler #MarvelousMarvinHagler

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RIP Marvelous Marvin Hagler! Forever immortalized for his greatness in the boxing ring as middleweight champion, as the star of the Indio franchise, and as the centerpiece of this early Golden Age Ghanaian movie poster, hand-painted in 1989 #marvelousmarvin #rip #boxing #indio

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Today Coming 2 America comes out on Amazon Prime, 31 years after this 1990 Golden Age Ghanaian movie poster of the original Coming to America was painted by Ghanaian artist Sowwy, published in Extreme Canvas (2000)!
#Coming2America #amazonprime #EddieMurphy

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Happy Valentine’s Day from Ghana ❤️🇬🇭

Dig this beautiful Golden Age Ghanaian hand-painted movie poster, painted in 1990 and published on p. 234 of Extreme Canvas (2000)

#ghanamovieposters #art #africanart #valentinesday #love #ghanaianfilm #losangeles #happyvalentinesday

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#MPM This may well be one of the greatest Ghanaian movie posters ever painted! It was created for local Ghanaian audiences right in the midst of the Golden Age in 1994 by the late great artist Muslim (c. 1970-1996)
#moviepostermonday #cliffhanger #climbing #ghana #movieposter

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#TBT Tonight is the Wolf Moon, the first full moon of January, so we’re throwing it back to 1994 when the Wolfe Pack were howling at Turkana with our announcement of expanding to the Bergamonster!

#wolfmoon #wolfemoon #howl #gallery #losangeles

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Look who stopped by the gallery! Looking cozy in that beaded chair, Yoruba people Nigeria
#Berniememes #BernieSanders #BernieMeme #africanart

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#TBT Not a fair fight between a horse and a motorcycle, even with your grandma in the back! One left hand turn and you're there!

This 2008 work by Isaac Azey is now part of the Fowler Museum’s permanent collection!

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Our thoughts go out to Tanya Roberts, one of the most beautiful women to ever grace the silver screen, who was reported dead earlier today, but is apparently alive and hospitalized receiving treatment.
Sheena, oil on canvas, 65” x 45” published in Extreme Canvas (2000) #sheena

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#MoviePosterMonday Undulating muscularity, hands squeezing sword blades, Schwarzenegger, and is that Jesus below?!—This Golden Age Hand Painted Ghanaian Movie Poster by seminal Kumasi artist Francisco has it all!

#ghanamovieposter #conanthebarbarian #schwarzenegger #80smovie

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#MoviePosterMonday “Jock! Start The Engine!” we’re revving up today with this classic Golden Age Hand Painted Movie from Ghana by seminal Ghanaian artist Francisco, published on p. 130 of Extreme Canvas 2 (2012)!

#ghanamovieposter #africanart #indianajones #MoviePoster #art

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#TBT to 2016 in Hong Kong with Tracey Emin, the late great Sir David Tang, Johnson Chang, and EW III at Hanart TZ Gallery’s show of “Kung Fu in Africa” featuring some of the very best Martial Art Movie Posters in our collection of Hand-Painted Golden Age Movie Posters from Ghana!

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Dig the feather star jagged edges of that bombastic explosion, the rippleosity of everything from muscles to pants, and the palpable, in-your-face kinetic energy of the airborne, mantis kick!

Thundering Mantis by Leonardo, 1993, Extreme Canvas (2000) p. 257

#ghanamovieposter

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#TBT Looking out from the docks of the Tamarind Restaurant across the waters, at old town Mombasa, the city/town that became the famous Island Kingdom—Photo by Tonio Trzebinski * circa 1980’s.

Ernie Wolfe III holding up what may well have been a world record blue fin Trevally