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Plums
Abigail Adams, Seven of Spades
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Oil and acrylic on canvas 70 x 64"
Tina Mion ©1997
From the collection of Ava Swartz and Steven Isaacs
John Adams rose to renown for fighting against the Stamp Act and taxation without representation. If the Stamp Act (a tax on paper products including playing cards) had succeeded, the British seal would have looked like the design on Abigail’s teapot, most likely without the addition of John Adam’s portrait. John did succeed though, and a whole lot of tea was dumped into the ocean. The British finally said the hell with it, and after two brief wars left us alone.
Everybody asks me about the cat with the cataract. It’s a very old cat.