Memory Post #5 No one is sure what year it was exactly, but sometime after 1935, my Great Uncle Doc went to a business meeting where he commented on how much he like a painting that was in the office. Right then and there, the gentleman offered the unframed painting to my Uncle. Not knowing anyone who can tell us the exact details of what transpired at the meeting, I like to imagine that the painting was perhaps a part of some wild business transaction or scheme. It is however quite possible that the agency with whom Doc was meeting had used the painting in an ad or story and needed to discard it. Advertising art in those days was done as full scale media productions and if every ad you produced required a large 50 x 32 oil painting on canvas, after awhile you probably just want to clear out your office! Because Doc was a bachelor and lived in a small apartment, he shipped the painting via RR Express to my grandparents, George and Pauline Keller, unframed in a crate. Im sure my grandparents were tickled with the arrival as stories have been told that the Black Family and their spouses loved to attend those little trotting races (aka Harness Racing). They named in The Stretch and hung it up in the Keller Funeral Home office, which is where I first encountered it when I was a child.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 20:13:00 +0000
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