People who complain of Customer Service
these days need to recall those anxious
delays of inventory retrieval, when one
might wait the better part of a cocktail
simply to emerge from the store with a
common snow shovel. Entire semesters
might go by, fitting a Class to the new
blazer, with nothing but a well mounted
gallery of paintings to inspect at the
most leisurely pace. There was a lot of
listening.
Oil on canvas
1956
New Year's Greetings, Thank you for posting a reproduction of a work by John Koch, a favorite painter and artist. His work shows a love of the human body and a love for humanity. I believe it the artist himself who is pouring cocktails at the credenza. It is the picture of civilization.
ReplyDeleteThe excellent catalogue to the exhibition mounted at the New-York Historical Society in 2001 is still available, as you probably know. The painting does seem to depict a civilization, albeit one condemned to conversation out of cellular range. Still, I like it.
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