Even though I didn't have an erector set per se, I grew up playing with Tinkertoys, and that experience might have been all the background I needed to concoct these wacky wonkas. The theme— elegantly harness muscle power to quaint but primitive machines, then make a vain effort to undo failures of mid-Twentieth Century technology (airplane crashes).

Detail of painting of two-man teams competing to pull crashed airplanes out of the ground using various contraptions, focusing on pull teams
Airplane Pull (detail of pull teams)
© 1988 Warren Farr
oil on hardboard, image 14” h x 18” w, N18
private collection

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