Chuck Jones Near Miss Wile E Coyote Road Runner Giclee 178/250 Framed COA

Kept in storage for decades, this professionally framed (28"H x 34"W) limited edition giclée print titled "Near Miss, " was reproduced from an original oil painting by Chuck Jones and issued in 1998 under a certificate of authenticity from Linda Jones Enterprises. It is numbered 178 from a regular edition of 250. Per the certificate, the image was scanned from the original oil painting, printed on 100% acid-free Somerset watercolor rag paper using extended-life-span inks developed for the giclée process, then hand-airbrushed with a clear, non-yellowing, water- and UV-resistant coating, and is titled on the reverse and numbered on the front. The signature appearing on the print is a facsimile of Chuck Jones' signature reproduced during printing, not a hand-signed original.

The piece is presented professionally framed with a double mat. The image shows the Coyote, dressed in a bat-like winged costume, flying past a rock outcropping where the Road Runner is perched, in keeping with the pair's signature routine in which the Coyote's schemes to catch the Road Runner end in failure rather than capture.

Cartoons from 1938 to 1962 and ranks among the studio's most significant directors. With writer Michael Maltese, he created Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, who debuted in the 1949 short "Fast and Furry-ous" and went on to star in dozens of chase cartoons built on rules Jones set for himself: the Road Runner can never be harmed by the Coyote, and the Coyote can be undone only by his own ineptitude, by Acme products, or by gravity, with every chase ending short of a capture. Jones also created or co-created Pepé Le Pew, Marvin the Martian, and Michigan J. Frog, and contributed to the development of Bugs Bunny. He won two competitive Academy Awards while at Warner Bros. For the shorts "For Scent-imental Reasons" and "So Much for So Little" (both 1950), a third in 1966 for "The Dot and the Line" after leaving the studio, and an honorary Academy Award in 1996 for lifetime achievement.