Saturday, March 31, 2012


'Steven Spielberg has an impressive art collection, but one painting always attracted his children's friends. "Nobody was stopped by the Monet, but [Norman Rockwell's Happy Birthday Miss Jones] arrests everyone's attention," he says. The painting depicts a classroom; pupils are sitting properly at their desks - except for one boy with an eraser on his head. He's probably the one who wrote "Happy Birthday Jonesy" on the blackboard just before Miss Jones arrived.'

G. Wayne Clough
"Show and Tell"
Smithsonian
October 2010

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