A Very Good Day

Found these nice photos at a flea market. These are the ones I wanted. But, I had to take some others to get these. Which also means I spent a little more than I would normally. I think the painting on paper was worth the price.
This kid looks like it should be a vampire.

When Santa was scary.

This is just a nice looking family.

Cowgirls

Starlet wannabe

This woman is GORGEOUS

The painting by Gastauer. I can't find anything about them. This is just really cool.

This portrait is about 16" x 20". It's signed by the Cardinal. I did an image search and this portrait was used in Archbishop Williams High School yearbooks back in 64 and 66 (from what my old computer tells me). I had to ask AI to tell me who the Cardinal was. It was Richard Cushing. A famous Archbishop of the Catholic Church.

He married JFK and Jackie and eulogized JFK at his funeral.

If that wasn't cool enough. There was a folder for the photo and a large mailer. I took them both. I didn't realize the mailer wasn't for the Cardinal's photo, it had this print in it. It's got a lot of foxing. But, it's #1 of 250 by Bob Dixon.


There was a letter attached to the print from a Medical Center that was selling these prints. It was addressed to Coburn Britton who was a well known publisher. According to AI, his most famous series was called PROSE. But, the coolest thing was at the bottom of the folder, a small (stenographer sized note) typed letter to Coburn from his father who was worried about the trouble Coburn was in. His father was author Edward Dahlberg. Who supposedly wasn't a well liked man.

 

I do not know who Gastauer is, but I like the image! It would look perfect as a science fiction pulp cover. It's in the correct proportion of Strange Stories. I just superimposed the text from an existing cover onto your image.