Photographic portrait of Jenny Holzer by Jim Arkatov, founder of LA Chamber orchestra (Hand signed by Arkatov), framed alongside an original letter from Holzer (HAND SIGNED by Jenny Holzer)

Photographic portrait of Jenny Holzer by Jim Arkatov, founder of LA Chamber orchestra (Hand signed by Arkatov), framed alongside an original letter from Holzer (HAND SIGNED by Jenny Holzer)

Photographic portrait of Jenny Holzer by Jim Arkatov (Hand signed by Arkatov), framed alongside an original letter from Holzer (HAND SIGNED by Jenny Holzer)
This work features a photographic portrait of Jenny Holzer taken by renowned musician and photographer Jim Arkatov, founder of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and author of the 1998 book "The Creative Personality”.

The photograph is hand signed and dated '92 by Jim Arkatov. Framed alongside the photograph is a typed letter, hand signed by Jenny Holzer and affixed to the back of the frame. 

Arkatov's original signed portrait, along with Holzer’s original signed letter, are elegantly framed in a museum quality wood frame under UV plexiglass. There is also a die-cut window in the back of the frame to reveal Arkatov's signature on the back of his photograph.

Measurements:
Framed
16.5 inches  (vertical) x 14.5 inches (horizontal) x 2 inches (depth)

Photographic portrait of Jenny Holzer
9 inches (vertical) by 7.25 inches (horizontal)

This was acquired from the Estate of Jim Arkatov. Below is an excerpt from his 2019 obituary in the Los Angeles Times:
"...His was an immigrant’s story, a child from Russia who landed in San Francisco, befriended violinist Isaac Stern — whose fame was still to come — took up the cello and decided to pour his life into making music.
James Arkatov found work with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and then with the philharmonic in San Francisco before coming to L.A. as a Hollywood studio musician who worked on movie soundtracks and backed up Ella Fitzgerald on some of her more memorable recordings, such as “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Books.”
Amazed at the dazzling talent around him in Hollywood, he came up with a simple but lasting idea — form their own orchestra. The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra made its debut on an April evening in 1968, as hundreds squeezed into the newly built Mark Taper Forum. Arkatov played cello as usual as the ensemble drifted through the works of Mozart, Vivaldi, Haydn and other legends of the classics who’d written music specially for smaller orchestras.
Arkatov, who lived long enough to see the orchestra celebrate its 50th anniversary, died Saturday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 98.
“The orchestra represented a contextualized part of L.A. that had simply never been captured,” said his son, Alan Arkatov, the chair of the education and technology program at USC’s Rossier School of Education. “L.A. simply didn’t have this type of ensemble.” Arkatov was born in Odessa, Russia, on July 17, 1920, and moved around Europe before sailing with his family to San Francisco, where his father opened a photo studio. One of his early childhood friends was Stern, who would become an international star who performed on the world’s biggest stages. Arkatov, who began playing the cello when he was 9, formed a string quartet with Stern when they were teens.
After stints as a cellist in San Francisco, Pittsburgh and Indianapolis, Arkatov became a member of the NBC Orchestra, the studio musicians who supplied the soundtracks for the movies that kept Hollywood humming.
Pulling from the talent of Hollywood like an NFL team on draft day, he cobbled together a roster capable of handling the delicate and nuanced music written for chamber orchestras. In contrast to the L.A. Phil, which filled the stage with 100 or so musicians, the chamber orchestra was but half that size. The idea was to create a group that would play works written expressly for such an orchestra, many of them from the Baroque era.
“The ensemble was never meant to compete with the Philharmonic,” Arkatov’s son said...."