VERY COOL/FUNKY PORTRAIT BY B. KLINE - WHO IS B. KLINE?

Found this at a yard sale today & liked it right off the bat- it made me smile - it actually made me think of the singing statue heads in Disney's haunted mansion that I rode on as a kid!
I've googled B. Kline artist and found a lot of Kline's but no B. Kline. Could someone who paints like this not have done more or be known?
Thanks, I appreciate any help.

 

Think someone's reach may exceed his/her grasp.

Debora

 

Hi Debora,
That was the same picture that I was going to post.
greg

 

Don't know Kline, but subject puts me in mind of Thomas Jefferson:

 

I thought it was Cloris Leachman !

 

Debora - you don't think it was well done (or at least executed)? They had to work with what they had to work with!

 

He/she had some training but hadn't fully developed his/her technique. A bit kitschy-koo.

Debora

 

It’s really funky but I think there’s something about it. I’d bet that the artist is familiar with the art of John Currin.

 

sorry... My first thought was.............................................................................

 

Feel sure it is supposed to be Jefferson, but please forgive me, was immediately reminded of a red-headed version of Zira (Kim Hunter) from the original Planet of the Apes...



~Cheryl

 

Hehe - great minds, Kyra...

~Cheryl

 

absolutely, and we posted that at same time!

 

hahaha

 

That was my first thought too! LOL!

 

It looks like the year "75" at the bottom, partly hidden by the frame? If so, maybe a mashup commemorating the upcoming US Bicentennial, along with the Planet of the Apes zeitgeist? In 1975 the original film series had ended but there was a recent live-action TV show and an animated one.

Possibly not a conscious connection being made by the person who painted it. I think they were inspired by the image of Thomas Jefferson but also... somehow the other likeness appeared.