[Signed] AS WE MET WITH THE RISE OF THE MOONLIGHT / WE PART WITH THE RISE OF THE SUN [BEATNIKS] Hein, Justin [& Glenn Todd] [Near Fine] [Hardcover]

Original watercolor painting by Justin Hein given to his partner, Glenn Todd, about 1963, and created in San Francisco. Description: Watercolor painting: (23 x 30 cm / 9 ¼"" x11 ¾""); in frame (34 x 40.5 cm / 13 ¼ x 16""). Glazed & in a gilt frame. Item number: 303866. This painting is a pointed, flagrant yet poignant expression of the Beat Scene in San Francisco during the mid-60's. It is an emblem of a central dynamic of the love affairs between Glenn Todd, Justin Hein, and Maggie Harms--as furtther elucidated in Todd's memoir The Book of Friends: Scenes from Life on Gough St. Glenn Todd (born 1930), who was the recipient of this painting by his lover, Justin Hein, hailed from Archer City,Texas. Glenn served in the U.S. Army; then attended Wichita State University. Thereafter, he graduated from UCal, Berkeley. For a number of years, Glenn--and close friends like Dave Haselwood and Justin Hein--resided at 1403 Gough Street in San Francisco. Their large multi-room pad became an important creative refuge for the San Francisco Beat-&-Hippy scene, which included several significant artists, poets, and their publishers. In 1964, near the time of this painting, Glenn followed his roomie, Dave Haselwood, into limited edition publishing. Haselwood (d.December 29, 2014) also was from Wichita, Kansas, then abuzz with wannabe artists and poets. Dave was then friends with painter-filmmaker Bruce Conner and poet Michael McClure. Then, in 1957, David came to San Francisco to study at SF State, but in 1958, he dropped out to found Auerhahn Press. He published fine, limited and often hand-set platen press editions of poets and artists of the Beat Generation. These included Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, Philip Whalen, William Burroughs, and others. In 1961, Dave entered into a partnership with Andrew Hoyem, and together they issued more limited edition press books by Edward Marshall, Lew Welch, Jack Spicer, David Meltzer, Diane Di Prima, Brother Antoninus, and Charles Olson. The books were enhanced by the work of several noteworthy artists. By 1964, Haselwood and Hoyem ended their unprofitable Auerhahn Press. Nevertheless, with the able assistance of Dave's Gough Street roomie, Glenn Todd, Dave continued to publish avant-garde titles by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Plymell, and Joanne Kyger under the imprint of Dave Haselwood Books. In an overlapping trajectory, Dave's former partner Andrew Hoyem then founded the Grabhorn-Hoyem press from 1966, publishing until Robert Grabhorn and his wife died in 1973. Glenn Todd worked for the press as a journeyman printer. Thereafter, Andrew Hoyem published extraordinarily fine limited editions of important authors via his magnificent Arion Press. Glenn Todd became an editor for Arion, where he wrote prefaces to several noteworthy publications: one being, Shaped Poetry (2014). Multi-talented Todd also wrote ""The Ballad of Lemon and Crow"" (2002) about three generations of Okies. It has illustrations by Bruce Conner, whom Todd had first met in Omaha in 1953, where they were members of another early Beat literary-artistic circle. Occasional artist Justin Hein (May 28, 1934 - June 2, 2018), like Dave Hasselwood, also had come from Wichita, then a Midwest epicenter aswarm with artist-types who had escapist, drug-&-sex-filled lives. Justin fit right in as an ex-Navy medic turned aspiring artist, swinger, and pothead. Not long after arriving in Frisco, Justin became another occupant of the Gough Street flat, which has been memorialized in Todd's, The Book of Friends: Scenes from Life on Gough St. (subsequent quotes are to the Kindle edition of 2017). Over time, Justin strove to become Glenn's partner, an important key to his explicit painting captioned, ""As We Met With the Rise of Moonlight / We Part With the Rise of the Sun."" With its expressive Beatnik and Hippie themes, Glenn's important memoir brings to life his on-again, off-again swinging, creative, spasmodic life with Justin and other