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Edward Hopper
Early Sunday Morning
(1930)
Norman Rockwell
Walking to Church
(1953)
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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES...Music is the mathematics of the gods = PYTHAGORAS...Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I think therefore I am troubled = RENEE DESCARTES<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES...Music is the mathematics of the gods = PYTHAGORAS...Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I think therefore I am troubled = RENEE DESCARTES<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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Whitney museum identifies Hopper as Seventh Avenue between 15th and 16th, once upon a time.
ReplyDeleteI love that phrase: once upon a time...
DeleteMaybe Sotheby's, which recently sold the Rockwell for $3 million...
could identify the street of the church walkers.
New York of long ago age
DeleteSo much of what is long ago is so easy to long for...
DeleteIn the 23 yrs between the two paintings it is good to know
that the barber pole got straightened and the fire hydrant
got painted.
Has been identified as "Walking to Church" in a composite scene of Troy
ReplyDeleteAnd Cambridge, New York, and Bennington Vermont.
Correction:
DeleteIn the 23 yrs between the two paintings it is good to know
that the barber pole got straightened and the fire hydrant
got painted.
Upstate & Vermont barber poles...are more upright
than those in lower Manhattan.
Upstate & Vermont fire hydrants...are more colorful
than those in Lower Manhattan.
Or so I would like to believe...
In the Rockwell painting, what appears to be a black smear...
ReplyDeleteis actually a cat rubbing up against the fire hydrant.
A nice little comic touch.