Charles Addams
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Charles Samuel Addams was an American cartoonist known for his darkly humorous and macabre characters. Some of his recurring characters became known as the Addams Family, and were popularized through
Addams in 1947
Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall, University of Pennsylvania
Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall Gate showing Thing from The Addams Family
Dear Dead Days, with the Addams Family on the cover
Macabre
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In art, the term macabre means "having a grim or ghastly atmosphere".
Charles Addams
…Charles Samuel Addams (January 7, 1912 – September 29, 1988) was an American cartoonist known for his darkly humorous and macabre characters. Some of his recurring characters became known as the Addams Family, and were popularized through various adaptations. Addams was born in…
Totentanz ("Dance of the Dead"), illustration from the Nuremberg Chronicle, by Hartmann Schedel (1440–1514)
A death head wearing the Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire, on the sarcophagus of Habsburg emperor Charles VI in the crypt of the Capuchin
Upper section of the Transi of René de Chalon. Sculpture by Ligier Richier, c. 1545–1547