Two Old Ladies on the Road. Besides visiting Richard Widmark's grave in Roxbury, Connecticut, I wanted to visit the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
On our runaway trips, our pace is leisurely. If we want to do something, we do, but not necessarily at the crack of stupid. Per the Rockwell website, I purchased tickets online for a Monday visit. We figured all the Leaf Peepers would have gone home. So we had a leisurely morning and arrived at the museum around 11 AM only to find it was packed with Weebles (Elderly. Even though we are now in that category we're at the young end of the spectrum) Not only packed in the parking lot, but people were arriving by busloads!
Teague found a place to park We were greeted by these whimsical sculptures by sculptor, Peter Rockwell, one of Rockwell's sons.
The day we visited there was also an exhibition What Me Worry? The Art and Humor of Mad Magazine.
Before Alfred E Newman became the face of Mad Magazine, there were earlier prototypes like Billy Riley for cigars
and these characters selling World War II War Bonds
Alfred E Newman, the man, himself.
My dad was a voracious reader, but he didn't like us to read comic books. They were verboten especially Mad Magazine. That didn't stop The Brother from bringing them into the house and letting me look at them even though at the age of 8 or so (The Brother is 6 years my senior), I didn't really understand a lot of the magazine. . So wandering around the exhibit gave me the same feeling of doing something I wasn't supposed to. Sorry, Dad.
The height of the Cold War brought us Spy Vs Spy. This was my favorite. I hope you'll be able to embiggen the images to read text.
Son of Mad
The Headless Horseman
A rather unflattering satire of The Girl with a Pearl
Scully and Muldar from The X-Files as American Gothic
Famous Aliens
Lots to see at the museum - you could spend hours there. I like the sculptures.
ReplyDeleteWe did because we still had to see all of Rockwell's work. The sculptures were so little people could sit, climb, and burn off energy.
DeleteWhen I visited there was no MAD magazine art nor those sculptures. Very cool and I'm glad you shared them. All rain for me yesterday. Most of the snow is gone, but not all of it.
ReplyDeleteYou must have walked by the sculptures without noticing. The exhibit was very cool. Lots of very funny political satire. Our snow is all gone. Good riddance!
DeleteI love Mad Magazine! Fun exhibit!
ReplyDeleteCrowded with all us Weebles, but that parts that I could see were great
DeleteSounds like a fun amd interesting day. Now I know, I'm a weeble!
ReplyDeletethe expression comes from an old children's toy with the slogan Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down.
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFzhjnjXc2o
A lot to see there.
ReplyDeleteAll the best Jan
And more to come
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