[TATTOO]. SHAW, Jonathan (American, b. 1953) Untitled. (Crazy Faces), 2025. Pen and Ink drawing. Signed and dated to the lower right margin. 10" x 8". Unframed. Shaw is the son of big band leader Artie Shaw and actress Doris Dowling. As a teenager, he coped with a heroin addiction, but he was able to get a job with the Los Angeles Free Press, where he met Charles Bukowski. Bukowski inspired him to hitchhike to Rio de Janeiro, where he learned the art of tattoos. He returned to the United States in 1976 and opened the first tattoo parlor in the New York City Bowery (tattoo parlors weren't legal in New York City until 1997) and named it Fun City Tattoo. He quickly gained a reputation as a premier artist, and gained a celebrity clientele (including Johnny Depp, Kate Moss, Iggy Pop, Jim Jarmusch, and Howie Pyro. Shaw also founded the first magazine dedicated to tattoos, International Tattoo Art, in the 1980s.