This 5 foot wide and 6 foot tall piece of art is signed in lower right corner and hand signed en verso - Todd Goldman 151 MJ.

About the Artist:( thanks to wikipedia)

Todd Harris Goldman is an American entrepreneur and the founder of David and Goliath, a merchandise company that produces clothing, posters and other merchandise featuring a variety of slogans. According to the Wall Street Journal, the sales volume of David and Goliath was USD$90 million in 2004.[2] Goldman came under fire in 2004 and 2008 for controversial slogans, and in 2007 for accusations of plagiarism Goldman began painting in high school, and he attended art school. Instead, Goldman attended the University of Florida where he graduated with a degree in accounting. He then worked as a CPA and found out he hated it and after a friend introduced him to the apparel industry Goldman decided to give it a shot. Launch of company Goldman borrowed money from his father in order to launch David and Goliath, his clothing company. Goldman launched D&G in 2000, in Clearwater, Florida. Primarily a clothing company, D&G also produces sleepwear with various designs, books, bags, and other accessories. Most of the art used on their merchandise is traced, often from clipart or other artists' work. Goldman achieved some notoriety for printing merchandise containing "boy-bashing" slogans, including "Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them!", "Boys are smelly", "Boys have cooties", etc. These are featured on t-shirts, bumper stickers, and other accessories. In 2004, Goldman was criticized for the slogans. In 2005 Goldman authored a book entitled Boys Are Stupid, Throw Rocks at Them! (ISBN 0-7611-3593-6)[7] which was also translated into Russian. In 2007, Goldman was accused of plagiarism. In June 2007 Goldman began working with FOX on a show entitled The Uglies, about the ugliest family in the world.[4] Goldman released Girls Are Weirdos But They Smell Pretty in fall of 2007.[6] In 2008, Goldman teamed up with Ashton Kutcher and Kutcher's production partner Jason Goldberg to design an animated original series as seen through the eyes of a group of teenage girls called BLAHgirls.com.[12] In 2008, Goldman was criticized by feminist groups for a shirt alluding to rape. On July 11, 2008, he opened his own gallery, Pop-Factory.[citation needed] Since the gallery's opening Goldman has sold paintings to Jessica Simpson, Rhianna, Paul McCartney, John Goodman and the Wayans Brothers (Marlon, Shawn and Keenen Ivory).[13] Jessica Simpson spent $1000 on a framed lithograph reading, "You say I'm a bitch like it's a bad thing."[14] Rhianna spent $35,000 in a single trip to the Jack Gallery in LA on February 17, 2009. One of the paintings she purchased said, "Fat kids are harder to kidnap." A painting which Goldman says is him making fun of society's obsession with being thin.[15] Tori Spelling gave her son, Liam, a copy of Goldman's Girls are Weirdos but They Smell Pretty book. Goldman plans to release two children's books in 2009 with Random House Publishing – The Zoo I Drew and Animal Soup. Controversies "Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them!" controversy Main article: "Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them!" controversy Goldman's became the target of criticism: in 2004, Los Angeles based radio host and men's rights activist Glenn Sacks initiated a campaign against the "Boys are Stupid..." T-shirts claiming that they were part of a general societal mood that stigmatized and victimized boys.[18] The campaign led to the line of shirts being pulled from several thousand retailers across the United States in 2005, including Dapy, K-Mart, Disney Store, and Nordstrom.[19] Masculist groups claimed that the shirts support anti-male sentiments. Others wrote that they encourage children to become participants in the battle of the sexes.[20][21] Goldman was named as number 97 on Bernard Goldberg's 2005 list of 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America. Goldberg also criticized Goldman's slogans for being part of what he called a boy-bashing craze, in which the makers of related products do not realize (or do not care) that young men have higher rates of depression and suicide than young girls in America. Goldman responded to the criticism, stating that he "hopes to be ranked higher next year."[22] [edit] Accusations of plagiarism In April 2007, Goldman was accused of plagiarism by webcartoonist Dave "Shmorky" Kelly, in a post on the Something Awful forums,[23] saying that Goldman's piece "Dear God Make Everyone Die" was traced directly from a 2001 Purple Pussy comic by Kelly.

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