"The Ballad of Mack Street"
Ballad of Mack Street Panel A
2003 (Date manufactured/created)
Print from original canvas
25.5in H
X
17.5in W
Color poster of one of three original paintings by Dr. Daniel Mack in the series "The Ballad of Mack Street". Image of farm activities including cow milking and hog butchering.
At the bottom left are four Mack family gravestones marking the graves of Andrew Mack, E.W. Mack, EDW Mack, Faye Mack, and one uninscribed gravestone. To the right of the cemetery, Daniel Mack's brother, (Dr.) Martin Mack, is depicted as a boy squirting milk from a black and white cow into the mouths of two cats (one tiger and one black and white ). Above and to the right two girls (Mack children) ride horses while a foal tries to join them.
At the middle left, a small white salt box house with small ell and woodshed is painted. According to the artist, the house was the earliest Mack homestead that was moved from Mack Street to Washington Park. A black buggy pulled by a white horse comes round the road from left to right carrying Dr. Perkins who is picking up his practical nurse and midwife assistant Alice Mack.
At the top left is a chicken coop with roosters and turkeys surounding it. At the center top is a pig pen and barn where the Mack family is depicted butchering hogs, boiling them and smoking some of the meat in a smokehouse.
Dr. Mack was a respected obstetrician in Windsor for the second half of the 20th century. After retiring to Florida, Dr. Mack began to paint his childhood memories in Windsor. He placed special emphasis on the Mack family brickyard, begun by Andrew Mack in 1751 and in family hands for seven generations. Dr. Mack's brother, Ed Mack, a former president of the Mack Brick Company, is the technical advisor for Dr. Mack's paintings- see press release in object folder.
Original painting was housed at the Mennello American Folk Art Museum in Florida but was shipped to Dr. Mack in 2006. There current location is unknown.
At the bottom left are four Mack family gravestones marking the graves of Andrew Mack, E.W. Mack, EDW Mack, Faye Mack, and one uninscribed gravestone. To the right of the cemetery, Daniel Mack's brother, (Dr.) Martin Mack, is depicted as a boy squirting milk from a black and white cow into the mouths of two cats (one tiger and one black and white ). Above and to the right two girls (Mack children) ride horses while a foal tries to join them.
At the middle left, a small white salt box house with small ell and woodshed is painted. According to the artist, the house was the earliest Mack homestead that was moved from Mack Street to Washington Park. A black buggy pulled by a white horse comes round the road from left to right carrying Dr. Perkins who is picking up his practical nurse and midwife assistant Alice Mack.
At the top left is a chicken coop with roosters and turkeys surounding it. At the center top is a pig pen and barn where the Mack family is depicted butchering hogs, boiling them and smoking some of the meat in a smokehouse.
Dr. Mack was a respected obstetrician in Windsor for the second half of the 20th century. After retiring to Florida, Dr. Mack began to paint his childhood memories in Windsor. He placed special emphasis on the Mack family brickyard, begun by Andrew Mack in 1751 and in family hands for seven generations. Dr. Mack's brother, Ed Mack, a former president of the Mack Brick Company, is the technical advisor for Dr. Mack's paintings- see press release in object folder.
Original painting was housed at the Mennello American Folk Art Museum in Florida but was shipped to Dr. Mack in 2006. There current location is unknown.
Gift of Dr. Daniel Mack
2004.021.001