The Woodstockers

The late nineteen-sixties and the flower children brought the bacchanal that far eclipsed any from Greek mythology. The God Bacchus, armed with new elixirs of intoxication, put on a musical celebration among wet sleeping bags and umbrellas.

The painting records the event of Woodstock. The treatment owes a debt to Giorgione’s “Fete Champêtre, Life and the stories of two of the models, who were Woodstock veterans, one of whom is blowing bubbles into the stained glass frame.