Día de Muertos Collection

San Francisco, California · Since the late '90s

Día de
MuertosCollection

Mariachis, samurai, gunslingers, surfers, and skeletons at the movies. Prints from the original paintings of Sean Levon Nash.

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Geisha calavera painting in red and cobalt by Sean Levon Nash — Original paintings. A life of their own.

Painted in: San Francisco
The work: Hand-painted calaveras
Every print: From an original painting
The paper: Museum-grade matte stock

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Dead Famous

Familiar faces. A different afterlife.
Movie outlaws and comic-strip classics, painted as calaveras.

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Skull-Faced Man in a White Suit — Day of the Dead Art Print

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Leaping Skeleton Samurai — Day of the Dead Art Print

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Day of the Dead

Mariachis, samurai, gunslingers, surfers, and skeletons at the movies. Every print comes from an original painting.

Seated Skeleton in a Red Dining Room — Art Print

$26.50

Floating Skeleton Embrace — Art Print

$26.50

Blue Folklorico Dancers — Day of the Dead Art Print

$26.50

Bent Surfer in a Red Patterned Garment — Day of the Dead Art Print

$26.50

Three Dead Musicians — Art print by Sean Levon Nash

$26.50

Skeleton Woman Balancing on a Pink Board — Day of the Dead Art Print

$26.50

Skeleton Stage Jump — Music Art Print

$26.50

Three Mustached Guitarists — Day of the Dead Art Print

$26.50

Sean Levon Nash standing in front of a blue, yellow, and red mural

Sold on the sidewalk first

I'm from East Oakland. I studied art and history at UC Davis, and by the time I got out the dot-com bubble was blowing up the rents, so I ended up in SOMA and then the Mission - still a low-income neighborhood then, and a receptive audience for my Dia de los Muertos paintings and my explorations into pre-Columbian art.

That is where I first started selling my paintings in the street, in the late 90s. Then Carnaval, craft fairs and cafes all over the Bay Area. We’re cooking up something big. Just wait and see—this is only the beginning.

The paintings are mine. The prints are how you get one on your wall.

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