The growing interest in the Addams Family caused by the Netflix series Wandinha unearthed stories about famous Charles Addams characters. One such story involves a gigantic painting that ended up hidden away in a university library.
In 1952, Charles Addams, at the height of his cartoonist skills, painted a lush monochrome mural on canvas for a bar on the Dune Deck, a hotel in the Hamptons. The work is almost four meters long and more than one and a half meters high.
When the hotel changed hands, the new owners, one of them a Penn State alumnus, donated the painting to the university’s art museum. A few years later, the mural was moved to the library, where it hung in the loan services area until it was relegated to its current location in 2000. Somewhere along the way, it got the name ” Addams Family Vacation”.
According to The New Yorker, the magazine in which the first Addams Family comics were published, the mural now hangs in the side room of the Pennsylvania State University library, behind glass. The painting often goes unnoticed by circulating students and some faculty members.
Members of the Addams Family were not properly referred to by individual names until the TV series premiere of ‘The Addams Family’ in 1964. However, everyone is represented in the painting: Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Grandma, Wanda, Pugsley and the his butler, Stumble, on the beach.
The mural was meant to be displayed at a beach resort, so Charles Addams set the scene on the beach. But being the Addams Family, he opted for a gloomy, overcast day for the outing.
According to the publication, the library is undergoing renovations and so the mural will move again. “It’s a gem,” Richard Riccardo, associate director of facilities planning at Penn State, told the New Yorker. “And it’s lost over there.”
Wandinha is available on Netflix. Also find out where to watch other Addams Family productions available to stream.
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