Sofa Art for Steve Reed

 

Blogger friend Steve Reed posted yesterday (American time and Monday London time) about a painting that he remembered hanging up in his parent's home when he was a child. As soon as I saw the picture and before I read anything he wrote about it, I was first struck about how similar it was to a painting that belonged to my grandparents and now adorns my family room wall above our piano. Steve researched the artist, a Robert Wood, and wrote up paragraph about his findings. Intrigues, I got up out of my office chair, walked into the family room and looked at the lower left corner of it and saw mine too was a print by Robert Wood. What a small world!

I left a comment on Steve's blog stating my discovery but thought I would share it with him and anyone else who happened to read his post and also reads my blog. I think he referred to it as sofa art. To be fair, after my grandmother died and we were going through her possessions, I saw the painting and passed it up but my wife grabbed it and put it in our pile to bring home. Eventually she even hung it up where it hangs now. I have no doubt it will likely end up in a landfill when I am no longer above ground as my kids never grew up knowing about it and likely still don't. It isn't a spectacular print and the only reason it stayed out of the landfill when it transferred to me is because I made the comment to my wife when she pointed out the painting that it belonged to my grandparents and was the only artwork I ever saw hanging up in all their many houses they lived in over the years.