Rocky marciano biography video about famous painters

Holland Paints the Rock From Brockton
Rocky Marciano

Marciano by Stephen Holland 41" x 26" Giclee on Canvas, an Edition 99

"When I was 14 years old and listening to the radio and I heard the announcer, '…and still champion of the whole world, Rocky Marciano….' I knew I wanted to be champion someday.

He was a big influence in the start of my career."
-- Muhammad Ali

Stephen Holland is well known as the top selling artist of sports. But if you were to pull up a stool in his Santa Barbara studio and ask him what it is he actually paints so amazingly well, he'd probably say, "I paint tough guys".

From the stadium green, to the silver screen, from McGuire to McQueen, Stephen Holland has captured, in paint, every version of the tough guy hero one could imagine.

It was because of this, that the choice to paint the great Rocky Marciano, had all the potential to be one of Holland's greatest works.

Marciano achieved an entire professional fig