Morley Safer's Hotel and Motel Room Art
The 60 Minutes correspondent was also a "Sunday painter."
The late Morley Safer liked to describe himself as a “Sunday painter.” Although he was referring to his sideline hobby of crafting watercolors, that description could just as easily apply to the way he deftly spun 60 Minutes narratives.
On this holiday-weekend Sunday, a good place to turn to learn more about Safer’s art is a piece in the new issue of New York magazine by art critic Jerry Saltz. Canadian-born journalist Safer was known for painting a still life of his hotel and motel rooms while on the road for stories, and interestingly enough, when Saltz received a bundle of Safer’s artwork in the early 1990s, that was the subject matter that jumped out:
I wouldn’t have bought any of these [paintings] if I saw them at a yard sale, except one.
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