If you celebrate Christmas, then Merry Christmas!
KEARSARGE MAGAZINE featured Tomie in their Winter 2012/2013 issue. The cover photo was taken in January, 2012. Christmas decorations were still up including Tomie’s “Matisse-like” Madonna and Child painting “stage left.”
Tomie was rather frail at the time of this interview. He had been in hospitals in Concord, MA, and New London, NH, for fifteen days, and had only returned home a few days before Christmas, 2011.
Ever the performer, the show went on: the interview was not cancelled.
The bottom photo was of his Irish grandparents’ (think TOM and NANA UPSTAIRS & NANA DOWNSTAIRS) wooden alphabet blocks on Christmas Day, 2016, in his Mercer Room. Tomie liked to leave messages on the blocks.
With Tomie in mind, I wish you “love, joy & peace.” (Bob)
