Andy Griffith as "Lonesome" Rhodes

Andy Griffith as “Lonesome” Rhodes

$225.00

5 in stock

Only twelve (12) prints of ANDY GRIFFITH AS “LONESOME” RHODES were produced for this 2025 edition. Each print is artist-signed in the lower right, hand-titled in the center, and numbered in the lower left (all beneath the image).

The image area is 19-1/2″ high x 13-1/2″ wide on an untrimmed 22″ x 17″ sheet. Paper, ink, and production specifications, as well as shipping details, are available on our PRINT SPECS page.

Prices will increase for subsequent prints as the edition depletes. Purchase price does not include shipping costs, which are calculated during checkout.

NOTE: These prints will be shipped 4–5 weeks after the launch date (Oct 1).

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Drew Friedman created this portrait of Andy Griffith as fast-talking huckster Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes in the blistering 1957 drama A Face in the Crowd. The plot follows a whisky-guzzling, guitar-strumming hayseed who rises from poverty in the Ozarks to become a local rabble-rouser and eventually a nationwide TV superstar and would-be political kingmaker. Rhodes dispenses folksy aphorisms and behaves like a lout while indulging his egomaniacal quest for power. His TV show attracts sponsors, he’s showered with money, and he embarks on a lavish lifestyle, while harboring contempt for the common man he pretends to champion. “Those morons out there?,” he sneers. “Shucks, I could take chicken fertilizer and sell it to them as caviar. I could make them eat dog food and think it was steak.” Rhodes is a shameless manipulator who charms his way to wealth and fame until the mask slips and he’s revealed as an utter fraud.

The film was directed by Elia Kazan from a screenplay by Budd Schulberg based on his short story, “Your Arkansas Traveler.” The film marked Griffith’s first major motion picture role, as well as the screen debuts of Lee Remick, Charles Irving, Charles Nelson Reilly, Lois Nettleton and Rip Torn.