Post by Henry Miller on May 16, 2003 17:31:31 GMT -5
Rumph just missed greater fame. He and his accountant, Harry Spitzer, were planning a coffee table art book featuring his major pieces. This was in the early '70s. I was consulted. I owned a large Rumph dragon Rumph had lost track of (we'd each had too much beer when I bought it) and his original studio sign. At that meeting Rumph sold me one of his Dick Nixon mugs for $10.00 and told me he'd run off a dozen and destroyed the mold; some disagreement with the company that had contracted with him for a presidential mug series. Unfortunately, Harry Spitzer died of cancer shortly thereafter and the project was abandoned. I believe that if someone were to publish such a book today it would find a market and enhance the value of all his pieces, including those produced in volume.
