RARE Private Collection Mason Williams White On White! Start Price USD 99.99 Current Price USD 305.00 Time Left - Bid Count 2 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, July 23, 2008 End Time Wednesday, July 30, 2008 Location Clackamas, Oregon See more about 'RARE Private Collection Mason Williams White On White! ' Description RARE Private Collection Mason Williams White On White! Classical Gas was the #1 hit of the year in 1968, and it won Mason Williams instant fame and 3 Emmy Awards. Forty years and 3 million broadcasts later, recording magnate BMI named it the #1 all time instrumental composition for radio airplay. The song has been recorded by hundreds of other artists and has been featured in countless TV shows and movies, including The Simpson’s and the Sopranos. There’s no doubt what Homer Simpson and Tony Soprano might have been covering up when they hummed along loudly to Classical Gas! Most don’t realize, however, that the REALLY successful side of Mason’s writing career was not music…it was humor! With his start as head writer for the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Mason has continued to write humor to the present day. In the 1980s, he was the HEAD writer for Saturday Night Live. He later said those years were “like working for the head shop at Sears.” He met and became friends with Steve Martin on SNL and later wrote for some of Martin’s comedy specials, winning added awards including the Writers Guild Award.Williams, who turns 70 this year, had “Cuckoo’s Nest” author Ken Kesey as a band member for a year or so …and together they played in concert with the Grateful Dead at the Oakland Coliseum. He played for the 10th Anniversary of Rolling Stone Magazine and Earth Day’s 10th too. His political activism in song was responsible for legislation protecting an Oregon river from being dammed. Williams also orchestrated the Presidential campaign of comedian Pat Paulson. His humor could not be contained, flowing out of his music and onto the printed page, beyond Hollywood. Thousands of poems, 16 books and 174 hours of TV scripts.And then there is his body of “conceptual” artwork, which also spans decades of his adult life. In 1967, he created “Bus,” a 37-foot long modern art piece that resides in the permanent collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art. He commissioned and designed “Sunflower,” in which a skywriting airplane pilot drew the petals and stalk of the sunflower plant, on top of which Williams photographed the mid-day sun.His humor in full bloom, another of his modern pieces reads simply: “There’s No Abyssness Like Show Abyssness.” Then there is the opus “White on White” (shown here) done in 2000. The original was donated to the Willamette Repertory Theater for a fundraiser in his adopted state of Oregon. Only 13 additional loaves, er, prints were made and each is owned by a private collector. Among those print collectors: longtime friends Tommy Smothers, as well as actor Steve Martin.And now the last loaf can be yours …. White on White is a take-off on the famed, fabulous American Wonder Bread, the staple for a generation of dough-boys and girls, Michelin kids and telly-tubbies. Williams here pokes a satirical finger at diet, modern art and perhaps his own pasty pale skin.This print, lucky #13, the baker’s dozen finale, is oversized (naturally, but certainly not organic), signed by the artist and has been authenticated as real…unlike the bread it was meant to represent. This item is sold as is and please view the pictures as they are worth it. Thank you and good luck! Place a Bid!