This is getting ridiculous. Planes fall out of the sky and everyone lives, but folks are just passing, one after another. It’s 80 degrees in California and it’s “flesh burning freezing” in parts of the country. Something mysterious is afoot, I tell you.
One of my favourite “spend time with it” paintings in any museum, anywhere. Battleground depicts Chadds Ford, particularly Wyeth’s home theree, which was built before the American Revolution and his neighbor George Heebner in the foreground. Chadds Ford was also the site of a battle between the Contintental Army and British forces during the revolution, taking place within the house’ lifetime, and presumably witnessed by former residents. I love how this painting presents the history of a place through it’s inhabitants, and suggests something both relentlessly mechanical and forgivingly ephemeral about the nature of time and history. It lives at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City. Label here.