In the 1930s my Dad, Philip Zarkin, and my grandparents, Harry and Rebecca Zarkin, stayed for a short time at the Pedicord Apartments in Spokane which has been enshrined in an exhibit at the Weismann Art Gallery on the University of Minnesota Campus. I don't have any details about their stay in this grim hotel but some of the interior has been reassembled in the museum. Soundtracks provide a haunting picture of desperate lives and I hope that is only the artist's interpretation. Weismann was the son of Russian immigrants to Minneapolis, much like my Dad who died in 2004.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Pedicord, Where Dad and Grandparents Stayed
In the 1930s my Dad, Philip Zarkin, and my grandparents, Harry and Rebecca Zarkin, stayed for a short time at the Pedicord Apartments in Spokane which has been enshrined in an exhibit at the Weismann Art Gallery on the University of Minnesota Campus. I don't have any details about their stay in this grim hotel but some of the interior has been reassembled in the museum. Soundtracks provide a haunting picture of desperate lives and I hope that is only the artist's interpretation. Weismann was the son of Russian immigrants to Minneapolis, much like my Dad who died in 2004.
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Your family has my sympathy. The artists were Ed and Nancy Kiezholz. Ed Kienholz was an installation/conceptual artist who emerged in the 1960s. I first encountered his work around 1970 through a documentary fim titled "Kienholz on Exhibit," which records people's reactions to a collection of his work, including his very controversial (at the time) "Back Seat Dodge at " (The film is on YouTube, but only 2 of 3 parts, unfortunately.)In 1973, I found "Pedicord Apartments at the LA County Museum of Art" and immediately recognized them as Kienholz. I never had to stay in such a place, I'm happy to say, but I saw such places when I delivered mail in downtown Hartford, CT. The Kienholzes were amazing artists to capture the essence of a part of life that many would choose to forget or ignore.
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