Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney was a boxing match that took place on June 11, 1982. It was one of the most highly anticipated fights of the early 1980s.  (The number in the photo does not appear on the original sketch.)  Please ask any questions that you have.  No Returns. To be shipped priority and fully insured.

An original signed pastel, charcoal, and pencil sketch of the famous 1982 Larry Holmes vs Jerry Cooney fight.  The sketch was drawn by (Two-Time) Emmy Award Winning Courtroom Artist, Ida Libby Dengrove for NBC News in 1982.  Currently, Ida Libby Dengrove's iconic sketch of Rubin Hurricane Carter is on display at The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC.  Her courtroom art collection is preserved by the prestigious UVA Law School Library and can be viewed in full on their special collections website.  Her work has been purchased by John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and John Gotti to name a few.  Her drawing of the Pope hangs in the Vatican.  Dengrove was mentored by Albert C. Barnes.  After graduating from Moore College of Art & Design, she won a fellowship to study with Diego Rivera in Mexico.  

Ida Libby Dengrove (1919–2005), 

American painter, Emmy Winning Courtroom artist, teacher, illustrator 
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Size: 18"x 14.5"  

 A New York courtroom artist who "visualized the moods and faces of some notorious trials",  Ida Dengrove was also a fine-art portrait painter.  From 1973 to 1986, she worked as a courtroom illustrator for NBC-TV, and for her skills won two Emmy Awards.  She was recognized for her illustrations of the Son of Sam trial, 1977-1978, of David Berkowitz and for the Murder-at-the-Met trial of Craig S. Crimmins, a stagehand.  Among her other subjects were Sid Vicious, Norman Mailer, John Lennon, John Hinckley, Yoko Ono and John Gotti.