Herman Morton Stoops - Famous Series of 4 Optical Paintings
The originals are in the Optical Heritage Museum Collection
Below are the descriptions on three of the 4 reprints.
Painting 4 - The Spectacle Peddler
Brochure from 1986, when the replications of the paintings were last
offered.
Brochure from 1986, when the replications of the paintings were last
offered.
Below is the original of "Eyes Examined".
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more about Herbert Morton Stoops
In researching the history of the Stoops paintings, John Young (Founder of the AO museum) wrote back to me with the following response:
"I only can tell you that AO hired the services of an unknown artist
to render those painting in the early 30's to be used
as give aways in a professional promotion that they decided to have.
If a
doctor signed up for AO exclusively they would get a set of the four
of
these. The originals, as pictured, hung in the second floor rotunda
at AO.
The others that were given away were much smaller."