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Art of the Day



Paul Cadmus
Manikins, 1951
Egg tempera on paper
13 x 16 inches
DC Moore Gallery, NYC


This painting made me think of the way that Gray holds me as I sleep at night.  Just a really neat painting.  Cute in a art-world-Toy-Story kind of way.

7 thoughts on “

  1. i fall asleep so soundly when david holds me like that…but usually it’s the other way around, w/me holding him…

  2. i rename this “manikin spoon.”

  3. spooning puppets.  What will they think of next?

  4. i love it.

    it made me think of that robot movie with robin williams in it. remember that? :thinks:

    you know how much i have wanted to annoy someone buy saying – “can you hear that?!” “don’t worry… its gone now” :giggles: have a sparkerlee dayee!

  5. I know what you mean…my hubby and I spoon almost all night long:)  even if we go to bed mad at each other…we wake up in the spoon position…gotta love it~Kimber

  6. I love it.  Very Escher-ish.

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