Self-imposed blogging deadlines having given way to a long-buried recognition that some spring-cleaning really needed to be done, these old photos are surfacing today. In 1987, I went to Chicago, where these two American icons were handily placed side-by-side in the Art Institute.
Not far away is the equally well-known Sunday Afternoon on the Ile de la Grande Jatte by Seurat.
At that time, Sondheim's Sunday Afternoon in the Park with George, inspired by the painting, was a big hit and general talking-point.
Which may explain why this
hommage had appeared in a nearby lakeside resort, in somewhat less exalted circumstances (click to enlarge):
When I lived in Chicago I liked to go to the AIC merely to sit in from of the Seurat painting. It never failed to fascinate; and the people who came to see it - just as wonderful.
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