The 1970s early 80s really made a real effort to get average people into art and I absolutely love that. Sesame streets tv special "Don't Eat the Pictures" made me fall in love with art museums as a kid
I did my graduate work at Wayne State across Woodward. I spent hours in front of Whistler's Nocturne in Black and Gold. One of America's great museums.
We do gotta have art. One of the best college courses I've ever taken was Art Appreciation. I came away subtly transformed by centuries of human creativity, and I think everyone should have that experience.
Oh, my grandma (an oil painter) had that poster framed in her studio in Alabama when I was a child. I had no idea that man was the mayor of Portland! 😂
Not only was he the mayor of Portland he owned a really famous bar/restaurant that made the best pastrami in town. I lived down the street from it for years
He was SO beloved by the community and that statue from the poster is still downtown. It was kinda famous nationwide in the early 80s but completely inescapable here so if her brother was here he definitely saw it. I love finding out the origins of things I knew as a kid later in life
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Out zoo has a cult hit too
I think my grandma’s brother lived in Portland, so that could explain why she had the poster too. I wonder if they ever had any of that pastrami.
Thanks for that hit of nostalgia!