Hmm, now there's a painting I'd never heard of, and it features Gus!
How was the weather? I remember when we moved to Chicago, it was November 8th - I was good at memorizing things then - my mother and I came there by train at the La Salle St. station and the city had been having a blizzard...
brrrrrrrrrrr.
Check it out when you're in Chicago, Osso. It is to the immediate left of the Seurat painting....
The weather was ok. Probably around 65. Nice walking weather.
Actually, now that I think about it, I posted the wrong Seurat.
The first one, I believe, was painted by Chuck Seurat, out of Cleveland.
rather more contemporary bathing suits..
I think I remember the mean prehistoric fish!
Glad you liked the Shedd. We're going in December (hopefully), can't wait.
The headliners (sharks, dolphins) are definitely cool, but it's that weird/ freaky stuff I really love...
My faves were the penguins.
These two paintings were similar. But they were different. I know a good lawyer who specialises in this kind of thing.
Chuck Seurat, the Cleveland house painter who later took up the sable brush and tried to imitate his elder brother, did some very interesting work in his later life. The one that Gus has shared with us here is still in the style of pointillisme. But later on Chuck developed a style he called what's-the-pointillism and this really rocks. Not too many examples are available for electronic reproduction, unfortunately.
