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# "Bringing Home the Wash" - Analysis This page features P.A. Cot's famous painting, originally titled "The Storm," which now hangs in the Metropolitan Museum. The text reveals the painting's retitling resulted from a complaint by weather forecaster Gilch, brother of a prominent lawyer. Gilch objected to the original title because the painting depicts a young couple and their dog in what he considered clearly good weather—he claimed "everyone knew that it was always fair weather when good fellows got together." The satire mocks Gilch's pedantic, literal-minded objection to the artistic title, suggesting he prioritized factual accuracy over poetic interpretation. The anecdote humorously illustrates the clash between scientific precision and artistic expression.
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“Bringing Home the Wash” now hangs in the Metropolitan Museum. We do not know where the artist hangs. It was originally called “The Storm” but the title was objected to strenuously by weather forecaster Gilch, a brother of Jacob Gilch of the law firm of Gilch, Gilch & Gilch, who claimed that the boy and his girl friend looked like a couple of good fellows and that everyone knew that it was always fair weather when good fellows got together. C= famous canvas was painted by P. A. Cot, and JUDGE, Volume 89, No. 2283, August 1, 1925 Entered as Second-Class Matter. October 21, 1881, at the Post-Office at New York City, N.Y., under Act of March 3, 1879. $5.00 a year. 15ca copy. bllshed Weekly and copyrighted 1928 by Leslie-Judge Co, in the U. S. and Great Britain Douglas H. Cooke, President; Kendail Banning, Vice-President and Editorial Director; Norman Anthony, Secretary; Joseph T. Cooney, Ass't Treasurer; 627 West 43d St., New York, N. Y._ Particular attention is called to the fact that every article and picture appearing in JuDGE is protected under the provisions of Section 3 of the Copyright Law of the U S. | For advertising rates address'E. R. Crowe & Company, Inc., New York: 25 Vanderbilt Avenue, Chicago: 225 North Michigan Avenue. comicbooks.com