Wednesday, June 08, 2016

Chuck Jones sculpture at National Portrait Gallery

A guest post by Bruce Guthrie
 

The National Portrait Gallery had recently updated its exhibits in the Bravo! and Champions sections.  These are the galleries that are kind of on the third-and-a-half floor.  It had been awhile since I went up there but had some time Monday sooo...

I was happy to see that one of the pieces they had rotated into the Bravo! gallery was a sculpture of Chuck Jones done by Paul Moore in 1994.  It shows a bust of the then-82-year-old Chuck being constructed by many of the Warner Brothers cartoon characters to which he was associated.  Chuck even signed the piece.

I love the museum (Donald Reynolds Center = NPG and the Smithsonian American Art Museum) anyway and encourage all to visit.  They also just put up an "In Memoriam" photo of Mohammad Ali.

The Chuck Jones piece is hard to photograph because of the case it's in but the following pictures give you the idea. 












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