tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post5153796562080974949..comments2024-03-17T03:42:21.277-05:00Comments on LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC: Arty Farty Friday ~ Mary Petty, Alan Dunn & the Fermi Paradox .Twilighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-77841985428332006812016-04-29T11:17:44.298-05:002016-04-29T11:17:44.298-05:00mike ~ Her illustrations strike me as gentle and ...mike ~ Her illustrations strike me as gentle and affectionate, no true animosity about the class difference depicted in many of her New Yorker covers - reminded me of "Upstairs Downstairs" too. That was their way of life, back then, and few questioned it. <br /><br />I missed that tid-bit about Petty's mugging - very sad. Thanks for the addition.<br />Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-68308351508023701742016-04-29T11:11:49.733-05:002016-04-29T11:11:49.733-05:00Sonny ~ Hi there! Waves... nice to see ya! :-)Sonny ~ Hi there! Waves... nice to see ya! :-)Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-48979459380490579552016-04-29T09:49:36.554-05:002016-04-29T09:49:36.554-05:00Sonny - Geeeeez...long time, no hear! Message? N...Sonny - Geeeeez...long time, no hear! Message? Nope. I did have some weird dreams last night...don't recall your being there, though...LOL. Hope the last three months have been kind...write and tell all.mike (again)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-68957990509478075622016-04-29T09:41:46.975-05:002016-04-29T09:41:46.975-05:00I like her artistic depictions of the NYC aristocr...I like her artistic depictions of the NYC aristocratic life from the servant's view..."Upstairs, Downstairs". The American collective of the 1920s and 1930s seemed to have a fond and obsessive, but jealous disdain of the wealthy class and their "help". I remember so many black & white movies from that era centered on the upper crust, their lives rendered in satiric fashion by petty, shallow, self-centered, daily affairs, usually rendered in comic relief, and often peppered with a servant's view.<br /><br />I'm not sure how so many artists escape leaving biographical information, but she and her husband are two more, as you mentioned. Sadly, Petty's life was disrupted by a criminal:<br />"Petty's career was tragically cut short when on 1 December 1971 she was assaulted and badly beaten by a mugger. She was found on Ward's Island three days afterward, bruised and incoherent, and never wholly recovered. She died five years later at the Pine Rest Nursing Home in Paramus, New Jersey."<br />http://www.anb.org/articles/17/17-01972.html<br /><br />Alan Dunn passed in 1974. Their brief bios often mention they were both recluses, so her mugging and incapacity probably prompted his downfall, too. Tragic. My mother was the victim of a home invasion robbery at the age of 79 and it ruined her sanity and sense of security. International terrorism is nothing to dismiss, but the criminal, homegrown, local terrorists among us have been more destructive by far.mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-19950084676536902092016-04-29T09:23:19.159-05:002016-04-29T09:23:19.159-05:00just popping in to say Hi.
I hope all is well wi...just popping in to say Hi.<br /><br /> I hope all is well with ya'll Annie and Mike.<br /><br /> Hope you got my reply Mike- miss ya bunches too.<br /><br /> Life is good but busy right now..<br /><br /> good wishes to Ya'sSonny Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06926830309207639536noreply@blogger.com