Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Terri Garr, Gene Wilder b. Jerome Silberman (1933 – 2016), Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle and Mel Brooks on the set of Young Frankenstein (1974).
“I was in the middle of shooting the last few weeks of Blazing Saddles somewhere in the Antelope Valley, and Gene Wilder and I were having a cup of coffee and he said, I have this idea that there could be another Frankenstein. I said not another – we’ve had the son of, the cousin of, the brother-in-law, we don’t need another Frankenstein. His idea was very simple: What if the grandson of Dr. Frankenstein wanted nothing to do with the family whatsoever. He was ashamed of those wackos. I said, “That’s funny.”
—Mel Brooks

Tim Walker
Karen Elson & ‘Atlas’ the Lion on posing table, Shotover House, Oxfordshire 2013 Archival pigment print on Moab supergloss paper 105.5 cms x 90.5 cms

Vija Celmins (b. 1938), Heater, 1964. Oil on canvas, 47 9/16 × 48 in. (120.8 × 121.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee 95.19 © Vija Clemens

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch artist, 1853-1890), Bridge in the rain after Hiroshige 1887.

Audrey Hepburn near Wall Street during the filming of Sabrina (1954) Photographer, Dennis Stock

Joseph Cornell
Habitat Group for Shooting Gallery
1943
Mixed media
39.4 x 28.3 x 10.8 cm
Purchased with funds from the Coffin Fine Arts Trust; Nathan Emory Coffin Collection of the Des Moines Art Center, 1975.27
Photo: Collection of the Des Moines Art Center
© The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/VAGA, NY/DACS, London 2015

Young Frankenstein
Screenplay by Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder
Based on Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Steven Hill b. Solomon Krakovsky (February 24, 1922 – August 23, 2016).
Baruch Dayan Emet.
Mr. Hill summed up his long career, not necessarily with regrets but with a clear eye, in a 1996 interview with The Times. “What we have here is a story of profound instability and impermanence,” he said. “This is what you learn at the beginning in show business; then it gets planted in you forever.”

Vija Celmins
Freeway, 1966. Oil on canvas. 17 1/2 x 26 3/8 in. Collection of Harold Cook, Ph.D. © Vija Celmins. Image courtesy McKee Gallery, New York

Tim Walker, Kinga Rajzak on flying saucer, Eglingham Hall, Northumerland, 2009 Archival pigment print on Moab slickrock metallic pearl paper 102 x 85 cm

Winslow Homer (American artist, 1836–1910) Nurse with Parasol

Cup for ritual washing
Artist: Nava Segev
Jerusalem, Israel
1994
brass
Donated to the Mina K. Avrech Collection of Judaica, Yeshiva University Museum, by Robert & Karen Avrech.

Alex Hay
Paper Bag
1968
Fiberglass, epoxy, paint, and paper
59 1/4 x 29 x 18 in.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
© Alex Hay
Courtesy of the artist and Peter Freeman, Inc., New York Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson

“You need a man to go to hell with.”
—Tuesday Weld

Peter Blake, b. 1932
Tuesday, 1961
Enamel paint, wood, plastic and printed paper on board, 476 x 267 x 38 mm
Tate Museum

Vija Celmins.
Gun with Hand #1
oil on canvas, 24 x 34 in.
1964

Dora Carrington 1893-1932
Spanish Landscape with Mountains c. 1924
Oil on canvas
559 x 667 x 21 mm
Tate Museum

Harry Callahan
Chicago, 1949

Robert J. Avrech
Silent Picture #1, 2016
Acrylic on canvas
18″ x 23 1/4″

Lielle, Mickey and Maayan wish all our friends and relatives a peaceful and inspirational Shabbat.

Ed Ruscha, The Absolute End, dry pigment on paper, 1982.