Monday, May 4, 2020

Charlie Russell


Yesterday I was mocking up a couple of options for an ad meant to run in a summer magazine insert. Of course, the state is still under quarantine restrictions, but the ads are anticipating a return to more normal (whatever that will be). In one ad I played with the idea that the exhibits are lonely. I used a drawing by “Friend Charlie.”

That version was nixed, but I thought that Russell’s drawing, As I Was, depicts life before he married Nancy was very much how I feel sequestered at home. And, we had a Zoom meeting for staff Monday last, and many of my male co-workers looked fairly scruffy. I think many of us are feeling a little claustrophobic, and disheveled.

As I Was by Charles M. Russell, pen and ink, 1986.06.04


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