David WellsHere’s the original photograph, for comparison. My grandpa was a farmer in North Dakota who raised Aberdeen Angus cattle, and he would take the train to Chicago for the national cattleman’s convention. I can imagine him walking the sidewalk at about the same time this photo was taken.
While drawing, there was something about this guy in the tan suit that stuck out. I have absolutely zero information to base this on, but he doesn’t look like a guy who’s particularly happy, or a guy you’d really want to mess with.
Knowing what was actually happening at the time, and what was about to happen - at the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention and elsewhere - it’s hard not to get a little shiver when looking deeply.
Oh wow, and here’s a tie in from a recent Art Institute visit. The view is similar (you can see the Prudential Building to the left), and the artwork is from around the same time. (Barnett Newman, Lace Curtain for Mayor Daley. Cor-ten Steel and Barbed Wire, 1968)
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A #SilentSunday closeup of the upper corner of the piece, completed for a protest show in the Fall of 1968, after the #ChicagoRiots that summer
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Okay, screw any editing on this app. (Site? Instance? Whatever.) I forgot to add an image description on the most recent post, above, so tried the “delete and re-edit” option - the only editing available on my phone app. The very SECOND that it showed me the root post of the thread instead of the post I wanted to edit, I hit “cancel” - but too late. OP is deleted, it seems. Urg.