Bockscar 4 Painting

Bockscar is the name of the B-29 Bomber that dropped that dropped the Fat Man nuclear bomb on Nagasaki. The plane was named for its pilot, Frederick C. Bock. The image on the nose of the plane was that of a box car with wings. It's a fitting image, a simple railroad car, used to carry ordinary freight transformed. The addition of wings reference the plan, and perhaps a higher power of angels. In the paintings Bockscar has come to symbolizes the ultimate container object, a vessel that carries the product of human imagination, both great and terrible Bockscar and other cartoon images, many of sultry ladies, like Yellow Rose and Lady Luck were painted on the noses of B-29 Bombers in World War 2, childish marks on weapons of war.