Feckless Piker(FP): Howdy demented dumpster divers everywhere. It's been a while since Oddvark and I have reported our exploits. We recently visited the Museum of Fine Arts(MFA)on a field trip for the culturally disadvantaged. The nominating committee took one look at Oddvark and me and immediately decided that we were eligible for the special scholarship that had been set aside to pay the museum entrance fee for patrons of the arts who are unable to afford exposure to great art.
Oddvark Contremundo(OC): Yes, Feckless and I were given the opportunity to view dozens of Hudson River School, Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, Barbizon and Tonalist works of art.
FP: There were many landscapes; some sketched and then painted in the artist's studio, others painted in the open air.
OC: Not all the paintings were landscapes. Remember the one titled "The Poacher".
FP: Yes, there was also a realist painting called "The Nest Egg" that depicts a couple counting the meager savings in their bank book in the lobby of an old-fashioned bank.
OC: There is a beautiful painting of an old house by Childe Hassam, one our favorite American artists.
FP: Yeah, out of a hundred or so works, there were about a dozen that I really liked.
OC: It was worth the time spent, don't you think?
FP: Sure, beauty and creativity is always worth a little time spent.
OC: Especially after a hard week of dumpster diving.
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