• San Francisco gallery specializing in contemporary American and European paintings and works on paper.
• A fascinating, funny and finally troubling documentary about the prolific, iconoclastic underground cartoonist Robert Crumb.

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Searching for Robert Johnson . Classically trained as a guitarist, Schein had turned his longtime passion for the instrument into a profession when, in 1. Matt Umanov Guitars, in Manhattan’s West Village. In the more than 1.

Schein had worked there, he had cultivated a regular clientele that included Patti Smith, ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, and record producers Daniel Lanois and John Leventhal; he had also sold guitars to Bob Dylan, Pete Townshend, Brad Pitt, and Johnny Depp, among other celebrities. His job had also exposed him to the painstaking, detail- oriented detective work that often goes into identifying and authenticating vintage guitars. Even when the make, model, and serial number of an instrument are apparent, pinpointing its age and value sometimes requires scrutinizing the idiosyncrasies of its construction. The design of the instrument’s tailpiece, its headstock, the number of frets embedded in its neck, its paint job or finish—all could be identifying factors. The photograph bought on e. Bay by Zeke Schein, who believes it depicts Robert Johnson, left, and fellow bluesman Johnny Shines. At the very least, he found it amusing that some people had no idea what they were selling.

As he pored over the mass of texts and thumbnail photos that the e. Bay search engine had pulled up on that day in 2. Schein’s eye. It read, “Old Snapshot Blues Guitar B. B. King???” He clicked on the link, then took in the sepia- toned image that opened on his monitor. Two young black men stared back at Schein from what seemed to be another time. They stood against a plain backdrop wearing snazzy suits, hats, and self- conscious smiles.

The man on the left held a guitar stiffly against his lean frame. Neither man looked like B.

King, but as Schein studied the figure with the guitar, noticing in particular the extraordinary length of his fingers and the way his left eye seemed narrower and out of sync with his right, it occurred to him that he had stumbled across something significant and rare. If there was one thing that Schein was as passionate about as guitars, it was the blues, particularly the Delta blues, that acoustic, guitar- driven form of country blues that started in the Mississippi Delta and thrived on records from the late 1. Not long after he’d begun working at Matt Umanov, Schein’s customers and co- workers had turned him on to this powerful music form, and, once hooked, he had studied the genre—its music and its history—with the same obsessive attention to detail that he brought to his work. And the longer Schein looked at the photograph on his computer monitor, the more convinced he became that it depicted one of the most mysterious and mythologized blues artists produced by the Delta: the guitarist, singer, and songwriter whom Eric Clapton once anointed “the most important blues musician who ever lived.”That’s not B. King, Schein said to himself. Because it’s Robert Johnson.

If his hunch was correct, he’d made quite a find. Johnson is the Delta- blues guitarist who on one dark Mississippi night “went to the crossroad,” as he wrote in one of his most famous songs, to barter his soul to the Devil for otherworldly talent. At least that’s how the legend that’s become ingrained in popular culture has it. So did the preternatural quality of his guitar playing, the bone- deep sadness of some of his music and lyrics, the haunting quaver of his smooth, high voice, and the dark symbolism of his songs. In some respects, you could say that Johnson is the James Dean of the blues, an artist whose tragically foreshortened life and small if brilliant body of work make him a figure of great romantic allure. This was especially true in the 6.

Johnson, and his music was being taken up by the likes of Clapton, the Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin. By the early 1. 99. John Mayer and Jack White. Defiant and Haunted.

While popular culture loves a mystery, its most obsessive fans abhor a vacuum; thus there are vast archives of bootleg album outtakes and Ph. Megan Fox Theme For Windows 7 By Pimping Gadgets For Vista. D. The lives of poor, itinerant black musicians in the rural South of the late 1. Johnson myth, from his birth in Hazlehurst, Mississippi (May 8, 1.

Johnson’s birth date, though his birth certificate has yet to be found), to his death, which probably occurred in the Baptist Town section of Greenwood, Mississippi, in 1. According to Elijah Wald’s 2. Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues, there is currently more information available about Johnson “than about almost any of the bigger blues stars of his day.” Still, in the field of Johnson research, attempting to separate fact from fiction from politics can be maddening. As Wald writes, “So much research has been done .

Still, this picture has been pieced together from so many tattered and flimsy scraps that almost any one of them must to some extent be taken on faith.”The biggest hole in this patchwork is the one thing that would establish Johnson’s humanity in a society hooked on visual media: photographs. In the years since he died, only two known photographs of Johnson have ever been seen by the public. The first of those images is believed to have been taken in the early 1. Johnson’s “photo- booth self- portrait.” The size of a postage stamp, it provided the public its first real glimpse of Johnson when it was published, more than a dozen years after it was found, in Rolling Stone magazine in 1. Johnson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In the photo, Johnson, wearing a button- down shirt with thin suspenders and holding a guitar, stares at the lens with eyes that look both defiant and haunted. A cigarette dangles from his lips, and although the guitar is only partially visible, his long left- hand fingers can be seen forming an indeterminate chord on the guitar’s neck.

If the photo- booth shot was a low- budget affair, the second image had production values. Taken by Hooks Bros., a photographic studio located in Memphis, it shows Johnson once again holding his guitar as he sits cross- legged on what appears to be a tapestry- covered stool.

But this time, the bluesman is resplendent in a pin- striped suit, a striped tie, shiny dress shoes, and a narrow- brimmed fedora cocked over his right eye. He is smiling in the photo, but his eyes make him look like a deer caught in the headlights. The Hooks Bros. The set sold more than a million copies, establishing Johnson as the biggest- selling pre- war blues artist of all time.

Schein had bought the boxed set about a year after it came out and had spent numerous hours immersing himself in the music and studying Johnson’s life story. The crossroads legend held little magic for him. After all, Schein dealt with professional musicians every day and knew plenty of talented guitarists and songwriters who toiled in obscurity or struggled for recognition, and even some who had died just as their careers were taking off. For Schein, Johnson’s appeal wasn’t any aura of mystery but rather his humanness.

Born illegitimate, Johnson had lived a life freighted with alienation and misfortune. In 1. 93. 0 he lost his first wife and their baby in childbirth, and yet, in the wake of this tragedy, Johnson managed to become a guitar virtuoso who still influences musicians today. He was “one guy with a guitar standing to .

As far as he was concerned, Johnson’s story needed no embellishment. With the e. Bay photo still on his computer monitor, Schein dug up his copy of the Johnson boxed set and took another look. Not only was he more confident than ever that he had found a photo of Robert Johnson, he had a hunch who the other man in the photo was, too: Johnny Shines, a respected Delta- blues artist in his own right, and one of the handful of musicians who, in the early 1.