Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for July 03, 2021
July 02, 2021
July 04, 2021
Transcript:
February 3rd is the birthday of America's favorite artist!! Norman Rockwell The lost works Berry Pickin 1929 Rockwell's rendering of the berry patch is so naturalistic that a blue Jay flies in the window & plants itself smack into the canvas. Spoiled Tabby 1934 And a mistaken frenzy, a local terrier sheds this composition of some tots pushing a kitten around in a baby carriage. Home to Roost 1939. Somehow wild ferrets get in & devour this painting of chickens right down to the stretcher bars. Ice Cream Social 1947 The little kid next door licks half the paint off before anybody can stop him. He's ok, but goodbye masterpiece. Thanksgiving 1956. Rockwell himself scrapes the entire meal- turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing & 3 kinds of pie- off the canvas with his palette knife & gobbles it down. Now that's art!
Cpeckbourlioux over 3 years ago
Art imitating food?
Diat60 over 3 years ago
We used to wait eagerly for the Saturday Evening Post to appear in our local store to see if there was a new Rockwell picture on the front. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, but always beautiful.
Kip Williams over 3 years ago
Rockwell did a POST cover with a big Santa beard prominently figuring. He had a beard there for a model, and later said that while the paint was still wet, he stuck some hairs on it, and was gratified with the good reactions he got to the finished product, though he didn’t make a habit of the technique. (I just looked at it again. I was two weeks old on the cover date.)
Vince M over 3 years ago
Is that Dill with the ‘Ice Cream Social’?
Teto85 Premium Member over 3 years ago
Tall, skinny kid with the pipe.
Sisyphos over 3 years ago
Sorry. I have never been a fan of Rockwell’s works. The more destroyed, the merrier, I say!