Benjamin Franklin Rawson, Argentine
Eddie Munster As a Blonde, 1868
Oil on canvas
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Benjamin Franklin Rawson, Argentine
Eddie Munster As a Blonde, 1868
Oil on canvas
Info, or perhaps links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here, here (Google translated), and here, perhaps in addition to what’s in his Wikipedia page (Google translated Spanish Wikipedia page may have more).
/// Eduardo hates posing; it’s gross.
His expression is glum and morose.
He is dressed up in pomp
near a dank fetid swamp.
If they’d let him, he’d say, “Adios!”
/// Why did Rawson choose this ugly scene?
Lalo (Ed) can’t stand feeling unclean,
but he leans on a mound
of dirt— weeds all around.
Is the painter deliberately mean?
/// Forced to stand here for hour-after-hour,
told to smile, his response is to glower.
Not an Argentine gaucho—
more a miffed mini-Groucho,
Lalo can’t wait to get home and shower.
/// Eddie Munster, (he claims), but bleached blond.
Well, if so, changes went way beyond
the light tint of his hair.
There’s no widow’s peak there!
Were his eyebrows plucked? Steve… you’ve been conned.
/// This kid’s ears aren’t pointed and wild,
and the real Eddie quite often smiled.
He’s a Munster? I know
of how that might be so.
Cousin Marilyn had a love child.