“Emperor Norton”. Oil on canvass (18×24″)
In homage to my adopted city, I complete this portrait of one of your most celebrated characters. This guys’ story is pretty amazing. To see more art please visit http://www.adriancovertart.com/Adrian_Covert_Art/Home.html
So this guy is the reason for the douchery that happens every friday night in the mission? bridge and tunnel peeps? Brilliantly Blue and Brilliantly insane!
“Though he was considered insane, or at least highly eccentric,[7] the citizens of San Francisco celebrated his regal presence and his proclamations, most famously, his “order” that the United States Congress be dissolved by force and his numerous decrees calling for a bridge and a tunnel to be built across San Francisco Bay (which both happened long after his death in the form of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge and the Transbay Tube).[8]”
I guess that’s waht i get for trying to be funny….:)
WHAT i get, not waht I get. damn.