Travis Simpkins

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Grant Wood. Artist and Freemason. American Gothic. by Travis Simpkins

Grant Wood. Artist and Freemason. American Gothic. by Travis Simpkins

Portrait Sketch of

Grant Wood

( 1891 - 1942 )

Painter

American Regionalism

known for the Iconic painting

American Gothic (1930)

Freemason

Member of

Mount Hermon Lodge No. 263

Cedar Rapids

Grand Lodge of Iowa

by Travis Simpkins

Grant Wood

For more info, please visit:

theartstory.org/grant-wood

Grant Wood. Artist and Freemason. Grand Lodge of Iowa. by Travis Simpkins

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Enjoying a quiet evening with "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" to keep me company.

“Never confuse Motion with Action.” ― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death, this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written.

Franklin's account of his life is divided into four parts, reflecting the different periods at which he wrote them. There are actual breaks in the narrative between the first three parts, but Part Three's narrative continues into Part Four without an authorial break.

In the "Introduction" of the 1916 publication of the Autobiography, editor F. W. Pine wrote that Franklin's biography provided the "most remarkable of all the remarkable histories of our self-made men" with Franklin as the greatest exemplar.