When did grafitti drawings and spray paint signage graduate from being considered vandalism to a recognized art movement? Pop culture historians pinpoint the late 1960s as the time that subway art and other movements began appearing in major cities with Philadelphia and then New York City paving the way. Some believe that grafitti taggers Cornbread aka Darryl McCray and Top Cat 126 from Philadelphia were among the first to elevate spray paint signage out of its defacement stigma. And by the late seventies/early eighties grafitti art had become much more elaborate and pervasive, thanks to the pioneering efforts of cult figures like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, who eventually made their brand of street art wildly popular and collectible. What most people don’t know is that a Canadian artist named Richard Hambleton created a public art series between 1976 to 1978 in major cities across America and Canada that were inspired by real life crime scenes. These homicide victim street portraits actually prefigured the spray paint artists movement in New York City and Shadowman (2017), a documentary by Oren Jacoby, delves into the elusive figure of Hambleton, who was famous before contemporaries Basquiat and Harring, but is the least known of the three today.