The Art & Humor of Stanley Johnson of Waupun, Wisconsin
The Scene on the Road series of 1915 illustrates the very real conflicts that arose in the transitional period between horse-drawn and motorized transportation. Johnson's brand of exaggerated confrontations turns it into humor.
Johnson posed his friends in all kinds of distorted positions and then pasted them into various wrecks. If you look closely you will see the same characters used more than once.
| Held Up |
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| Homeward Bound |
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| Joy Ride There is neither joy nor ride in this scene, and no exaggeration, either. This is the way it was in 1915. Very few roads had been paved and they were only in some towns. Rural areas were mud and ruts as shown here. The dog is a pasted in feature, but the rest is just a very authentic photo of an automobile being pulled out of the mud by a horse team. |
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| The Milky Way |
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| Beware of the Water Wagon |
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| The People We Met |
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| We Never Stop |
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| We Stopped Here |
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| You Are To Blame (1921) |