Collection: Drawings, Paintings and Prints by Charles Bukowski

Bukowski drew his entire adult life. In the 1940s he included drawings in his letters. In the 1960s and 1970s he illustrated his Notes of a Dirty Old Man column for Open City and the Los Angeles Free Press. He sent drawings with magazine submissions — some editors published them alongside his poems, others didn't. Black Sparrow Press bound original paintings into the highest tier of their limited editions, and later produced serigraphs that Bukowski sometimes signed.

Original drawings are the rarest items in this collection. Considering his output across five decades, very few remain in circulation. What's here is here because someone held onto it.

Browse everything below — and read the descriptions. Each one has a story.