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Richard Avedon's "Daughters of American Revolution" at the Black Forest Inn

Richard Avedon's "Daughters of American Revolution" at the Black Forest Inn by TedSher.
Richard Avedon exhibited this print in his 1970 solo show at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. then gave it to the Black Forest Inn where it continues to hang in the bar. Christy DeSmith described in a local alternate paper, The Rake what happened in 1986:
...Ellis Nelson, a regular at the bar, was sitting on his favorite stool when he pulled out a revolver and opened fire on the photograph. “That was a wild day,” remembers Erich, who was walking his wife and infant son through the parking lot when the shooting occurred. “People came running out of every hole in the place shouting ‘He’s got a gun! He’s got a gun!’ and I said to myself, ‘Ellis, this time you really did it.’” When police later questioned the shooter, trying to uncover a motive, Nelson was reported to have answered, “That photo always bugged the hell out of me.” 

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Edna Barney  Pro User  says:

Ellis Nelson had some principles of sorts; he didn't shoot the DAR lady in the back.
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magnus.eisengrim  Pro User  says:

Now this was some time after I worked at the Black as a bartender. I knew Erich and Ellis of course, but this is the first I've heard that Erich had a son! He had three daughters when I worked there and they were preschool in the mid seventies, the son must have been an afterthought. As was I.

When we read of the shooting in the paper the next morning, the article did not identified the shooter as only a "disgruntled 40 year old regular"

I looked at my wife and said, "Ellis Nelson."
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

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