Please Dawn Not on Christmas Painting by Jonathan Morrill

Please Dawn Not on Christmas

by Jonathan Morrill

Canvas Print

$42

Framed Print

$68

Art Print

$17

Poster

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Metal Print

$66

Acrylic Print

$74

Wood Print

$45

Tapestry

$41

Throw Pillow

$25

Fleece Blanket

$48

Duvet Cover

$97

Shower Curtain

$68

Ornament

$9.50

Tote Bag

$25

Yoga Mat

$60

Greeting Card

$4.70

Spiral Notebook

$15

iPhone Case

$27

Round Beach Towel

$70

Coffee Mug

$14

Men's Clothing

$25

Women's Clothing

$25

Youth Clothing

$21

Toddler Clothing

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Baby Clothing

$23

Original - Not For Sale

Price

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Dimensions

16.000 x 20.000 inches

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Title

Please Dawn Not on Christmas

Artist

Jonathan Morrill

Medium

Painting - Acrylic On Canvas

Description

This acrylic piece was created specifically for
the Tiki Wonderland IX event held on December 7, 2014.
Tiki Wonderland is an annual event held at the Tonga Hut
in North Hollywood, California.

"Please, Dawn! Not on Christmas!" is not only the title of this piece,
but is also the line said by actress Betty Woods,
who portrays delinquent Dawn Davenport's mother,
in the 1974 cult hit "Female Trouble".

"Female Trouble" was written and directed by John Waters
and stars the one and only Divine, as Dawn Davenport.

Here is a portion of the description for the film "Female Trouble",
from it's page on Wikipedia.com :

In 1960 in Baltimore, juvenile delinquent Dawn Davenport,
a regular troublemaker at her all-girls school,
receives a failing Geography grade
and a sentence of writing lines for fighting, lying, cheating,
and eating in class.

On Christmas morning, Dawn fails to get the cha-cha heel shoes
she wants for Christmas.
After breaking into a violent rage and pushing her mother
into the Christmas tree,
Dawn runs away from home and, while hitchhiking,
gets picked up by Earl Peterson, a fat man driving an Edsel station wagon. Peterson drives Davenport to a dump, where they have sex on a dirty mattress on the side of the road.
When she later finds herself pregnant and demands money from him,
he tells her, "Go fuck yourself",
which Divine had indeed done by playing both roles.

The immortal Cookie Mueller portrays Concetta,
one of Dawn Davenport's partners in crime.
In his book 'Shock Value', John Waters credits Mueller with the title
for his 1974 film "Female Trouble".
When she was hospitalized for pelvic inflammatory disease in Provincetown, Waters and Mink Stole visited Mueller.
"What happened, Cook?" Waters asked.
"Just a little female trouble, hon," she replied.

The original painting is now part of a private collection of an estate
in West Hollywood, California.