Wyeth’s studio. Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. 2013. By Paul Goldfinger ©
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger
Andrew Wyeth, famous painter, was a movie buff and he had souvenirs around his studio, given to him by some of his actor friends. There was a sword from the swashbuckling Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. The skeleton was real, but I don’t know if he had it there for fun or for body sketches.
We had a skeleton in the gross anatomy lab in medical school. There is a photo around somewhere with me in my smelly formaldehyde laden lab coat with my arm around the skeleton, holding a pipe in his mouth.
My roommate and I were given a bone box and a skull box to take home and study. One month later, we put a hat on the skull, lit it up, and put it in our ground floor window for Halloween on 16th Street in D.C. Down the street a few blocks was the White House where our neighbor JFK and his family lived.
LOUIS PRIMA with a song for the skeleton “I Ain’t Got No Body.” And also “Just a Gigolo.” which is about my ambition after my bar mitzvah.
