Connecticut woods
Blitt draws power as a situation, not a speech. The woods around him are full of rooms that do the same trick: a glass house that hides nothing, a contemporary museum that still looks like a house, a Yale hall that treats sculpture as furniture.
What to see
Museums, street, odd rooms, and the work we shot. Picked for the same problem as the episode.
The Aldrich
Ridgefield. Contemporary work in a house-and-barn that still feels like a town. The jokes here are spatial. Blitt would recognize the tone.
The Glass House
Philip Johnson, New Canaan. A room that is all window. The landscape is the picture. Book ahead. It is the architectural cousin of a cartoon with no caption.
Yale University Art Gallery
New Haven. Free. The sculpture hall is a lesson in how a room arranges power. Useful if you have just watched a cartoon do the same thing with watercolor.
The covers
Washington at a dead party. Liberty counting days. The pictures live in The New Yorker and in Blitt the book. The woods are his. The covers are yours.
If you want the work
The pictures live in The New Yorker, in Blitt the book, and on the walls of people who still think a drawing can indict a presidency. The woods are his. The covers are yours.
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