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PROGRAMMING NOTE from the Author and Archivist


So obviously I just stopped blogging on this platform. I'll get back to it eventually. Or not. I'm taking a break from all social media. It seemed necessary for my mental health.

The last few years have been busy and … challenging:

- 2015 Happened.
- 2016 Let's call it The Lost Year. (Obviously words failed me.)
- 2017 about broke me. Literally. Mentally.
- 2018 was ridiculous, proving 2017 was just a warm up. (Good thing I was already broken so it couldn't hurt as much.#2018TrashCanFire I thought things were going okay, but maybe not?)

- 2019 was such a blur. I know there were highlights, but then stuff happened and carried into the next year...

- And then in March#2020 really took a turn. Who can even categorize 2020? Do we dare?


I kinda want a do-over of some of the last few years. But life doesn’t work that way.


So for now, I'm hunkering down. Regrouping. Trying to stay safe and sort some stuff out.


Stay safe everyone. Stay well.

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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Retroblogging: Chicago Trip 2012, Art Institute

 And you thought YOUR family was funny looking!

These characters just cracked me up.

William Bonnell was ahead of the anime crazy, but they totally would be adopted by some Japanese fans now.



William Bonham, March 4, 1825
Oil on panel
30.5 x 24.9 cm (12 x 9 13/16 in.)
Inscribed on reverse: "William Bonnell/Pin/March 4th/1825/Portrait of Wm Bonham/ Painted at the age of 38 years"

(Note: there may be an "x" after "Pin" but it is hard to see.)
Estate of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1980.739



 


Mrs. William Bonham (Ann Warford), March 6, 1825
Oil on panel
30.5 x 24.9 cm (12 x 9 13/16 in.)
Inscribed on reverse: "William Bonnell/Pinxt/March 6th 1825"
Estate of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1980.740
 


J. Ellis Bonham, March 5, 1825
Oil on panel
30.5 x 24.9 cm (12 x 9 13/16 in.)
Inscribed on reverse: "William Bonnell/Pinxt/March 5th 1825"

Also on back is a pencil sketch of the work painted on front.
Estate of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1980.741
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