This painting depicts Bonnie Parker posing against a '49 Lincoln with a Colt pistol in her hand. As outlaws, she and husband Clyde Barrow terrified, excited and inspired the depressed Midwest with a series of bank robberies. The banks, foreclosing on properties, were seen as the enemy of the people. Bonnie represents a desire to flaunt authority and so signifies freedom, individuality and power. Also, the choice of Faye Dunaway to play the movie role, elevated the homely Bonnie Parker to gorgeous star status.
"The American West produced many of the most iconic outlaws in history...The Great Depression would lead to the return of the outlaw, with crimes perpetrated by such famous villains as John Dillinger, Clyde Barrow (and his gun-toting moll Bonnie Parker), "Pretty Boy" Floyd, "Machine Gun" Kelly and "Baby Face" Nelson. These criminals terrorized Middle America for several years in the early 1930s, robbing banks and shooting it out with police from Illinois to Texas&..there are many who see them as freedom fighters and revolutionaries who stood up to the government and what they saw as the marginalization of the poor."
- www.outlawarchive.com
"The gangsters become counter-cultural romantic fugitives and folk heroes with almost celebrity status."
- Arthur Penn production of Bonnie and Clyde
Ain't Life Grand
48 x 48
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