How a massive painting by Charles Addams wended its way from a Hamptons hotel to a university library.
The cartoonist Charles Addams in front a mural he painted for a Hamptons hotel bar, which over the years wended its way from Long Island to a Penn State library and picked up the name “An Addams Family Holiday.”n a side foyer of a Pennsylvania State University library, behind glass, hangs a painting that often goes unnoticed by students on their way to the stacks. Even some faculty members who have taught at Penn State for decades don’t know it’s there. And it’s a masterpiece.
The way it's displayed obscures the fact that this painting is both a great work by a major artist and a gag that would have fit right intoof 1952. The mural, rendered in gray tones—from dense black to the white of the sand—looks just like a printed cartoon, only much larger., in 1938, were not properly christened with individual names until the début of the “Addams Family” TV show, in 1964.
One can imagine Addams being presented with the venue for his commission, and sizing up the task. The mural was meant for a beach resort, so he set the scene at the beach. But, this being the Addams Family, he opted for a grim, overcast day for their outing. The next consideration was likely the horizontality of the space, so he devised a gag that is essentially horizontal.
The horizon line and the frantic swimmer conspire to push us urgently to the right. The wide-open eyes of the guy in the foreground look back to our entry point on the left. Were his legs to extend beyond the frame, he would be standing on the real floor in the real world, with us, so we relate to him and his distress.
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