Daddy, Dear Old Daddy

Whistler's famed Portrait of the Artist's Mother has canonized Mother; but what about Father? The National Father's Day Committee has searched for two years for a painting that would bring Father out of the nowhere into the here. The committee checked over 3,000 paintings by celebrated artists, from Giotto to Grant Wood, last week--with Father's Day (June 15) just ahead--gave up the search.

"It appears," said the committee, "that the father as a subject for great art has been completely overlooked or suppressed by every great painter in the modern art world."

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