Hiding Our Hippies in the Art Closet

The AC….what a great title for another blog. The Art Closet was made famous by Julie Lynch the biographer of Christine Rosamond Benton, who did not mention Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor is our kin, and thus all those stoned-out Getty Kids. This oversight is due to Sydney Morris blessing ‘Caretaker’ Stacey Pierrot, the outside Undertaker of the Rosamond Legacy – who did not know Liz was in our family tree! Her son, Christopher Wilding, married Aileen Getty. The Getty kids were serious about taking drugs, as were the Presco Children. Being kin to Agustus John may have been an inspritation. If John had LSD at his disposal, he would have tripped, often, and hanged it out to his muses, his wives, his children, and their lovers. He would have been the Timothy Leary of his times.

Now. add to this the Benton artists, and you have a Artistic Dynasty that was…