Ike and Adlai, C. 1950s Folk Art (Vote with Your Butts!) Ashtrays globe and stars drawing who knows what

drawing who knows what

almost like a mini Donald Judd

and others here and there all over

so I'm not resisting happy

along with a line deeply carved into the frame all the way around

Ike and Adlai, C. 1950s Folk Art (Vote with Your Butts!) Ashtrays globe and stars drawing who knows whatI wasn't yet around when Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson faced off, but I'd love to have met the person who made these clever folk art ashtrays marking the occasions (1952 & 1956), a brilliant early iteration of sample polling among focus groups, I'd say! A relatively simple gesture, but an iconic one, representing radically different ideologies, and rather poignant feeling one now, including as one imagines how different things might be had