Roth was in the process of setting up ‘Choppers’ magazine because he could not get any of the mainstream publications to publish his articles on customised bikes and was very interested in Mann’s work.The original painting Mann first showed to Roth was ‘Hollywood Run’ and on the basis of this Mann was commissioned to produce a series of paintings. He started painting biker scenes and took some of his early work to the custom car show where it came to the attention of Ed ‘Big Daddy’ Roth the man credited with creating the first ever custom car who had also started creating his own personalised motorbikes. He initially trained as a car sprayer due to an interest in custom cars but following a move to California he became more and more interested in the nascent biker culture that was developing in the early 60s.
Mann was born in Kansas in 1940 and as a boy showed an early aptitude for drawing and painting. Here we take a brief look at the life and times of Dave Mann and we’ve also managed to uncover some of the early work that kickstarted his Biker Art career and first got his name in lights. In fact a simple Google of ‘Biker Art’ brings up four of his paintings at the top of the page and five mentions of his name on the front page alone.
If there is such a genre as Biker Art then Dave Mann has to be the leader of the pack.
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