"Frank Sinatra is unquestionably one of the most iconic music legends of the 20th century and is widely considered among the greatest American singers of pop music of all time. Aside from his music and his acting, Sinatra was also a talented painter, spending his leisure time creating colorful canvases inspired by the most popular painters of his day. The present oil on canvas is a striking example of the work he created on canvas, showing the influence of the great American abstract artists." (F>or sale by M.S. Rau, +2023.02.19, $178,500 Item No. 31-6551)

What to make of this? I (BMcC[18-11-46-503]) have always thought of Mr. Sinatra as a quintssential component of The American Dream: the social conditioning package that made post World War II middle class white Americans lust to subject themselves to suburban housing develoment single family ranch house mort—gages, accept long automobile commuting to meaningless white collar office jobs, and all the rest of it, lulled by such mind-numbing drugs as Mr. Sinatra's crooning. But was he another one of those people who when they go home, secretly live at a higher cultural, not just economic level than their followers? (Click for another Frank Sinatra painting, 1992: here)

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