COME TOGETHER, RIGHT NOW, OVER ME: A GUIDE TO ALL THE SHINING’S BURIED ART

“Realism is by essence the art of democracy”

~Gustave Courbet

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Table of Contents

VISUAL ARTS

Note: I’ve indented all the as-yet-uncertain pieces in the film so you can see at a glance the ratio between what’s for sure and what’s not.

• Special: Unidentified Pieces
• Special: The Art of the Lobby

• The Solemn Land (JEH MacDonald, 1921)
• Log Hut on the St. Maurice (Cornelius Krieghoff, 1862)
  • Mystery Silhouette (Lobby Foyer–possibly by Salvador Dali)
• The Tower of Babel (Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1563)
• Northern River (Tom Thompson, 1914-15)
• Stormy Weather, Georgian Bay (F. H. Varley, 1921)
• Red Maple (A. Y. Jackson, 1914)
• Navajo/Apache Wall Rugs (5) (Unknown craftsperson, date of origin)
• Winter photo of Mt. Hood (Mike Roberts, c. 1960s)
• Spring photo of Mt. Hood (Francis Kies, 1960s)
• Summer photo of Mt. Hood (Franklin Lee Silkey, 1960s?)
• Autumn photo of Mt. Hood (Glenn E. Walthall, 1967?)
• The Great Earth Mother (Norval Morrisseau, 1976)
• Oskar Political Cartoon Posters (Hans Bierbrauer (AKA Oskar), sometime between 1948-1980; seen in Susie’s office, radio room, snowcat garage)
• Le campement du trappeur (AKA Trapper’s Camp) (Clarence Gagnon, 1931)
• Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World) (Abraham Ortelius, 1570s)
• Flock of Loons (or Untitled) (Norval Morrisseau, 196?+)
  • Mystery Tunnicliffe painting (Susie’s office, outside 237)
  • Mystery Lansdowne painting (Susie’s office)
• Napolitano Postcard with Augustus Caesar Statue (????, 1970s?-1st century BCE)
• Postcard of Ana Cross/Ralph Cross (????, 1970s?-Medieval times)
  • Mystery Banner (Torrance apartment)
• One By One (Claude du Boc, Jan. 1975)
• One By One (Stomu Yamash’ta’s East Wind, 1974)
  • Mystery Lang Shining banner (Torrance apartment)
• Woman and Terrier (Alex Colville, 1963)
• December Afternoon (Hugh Monahan, 1969)
  • Mystery Monahan (Lobby, 2nd Entrance–might also be by Sir Peter Scott)
• Boy and Girl Knitting (Unknown artist, unknown date of origin)
• Horse and Train (Alex Colville, 1954)
  • Kaisergebirge, Tirol (Kaiser Mountains, Tyrol)? (Alois Arnegger?, 1900s-1910s?)
  • Mystery Horse/Dog painting (Anton Mauve? Frederic Remington?)
• Colorado Tourism Posters (Unknown artist, unknown date of origin)
• Paysage d’hiver, Laval (Winter Landscape, Laval) (Cornelius Krieghoff, 1849)
• Mist Fantasy, Sand River, Algoma (JEH MacDonald, 1920)
• The Ahwahnee Hotel (1927, Gilbert Stanley Underwood, Yosemite Valley, California) – interiors used as basis for the Overlook
• Great Lounge, stained glass windows (Jeanette Dryer Spencer, 1927)
• Bog oak art piece (Untold thousands of years old)
• Hound in Field (Alex Colville, 1958)
  • Irish Setter (Dr. Avery Vaughan, 1978?)
• Tatânga Mânî (Walking Buffalo, AKA George McLean) (Dorothy Oxborough?, Mar. 20, 1871-Dec. 26 1967)
  • Jackson Hole Poster?
  • Denver Olympics Poster (Gene Hoffman – 1976 — uncertain, but very likely)
  • Mystery Group of Seven Trio (Games Room)
• SKI BROaDMOOR (Herbert Bayer, 1969)
• Steamboat Ski Poster (Jerry Brimacomb, 1973)
• Similar: Vail Last Run Original Ski Poster (David Runyon, 1970-1979)
  • Mystery Denver Flood Poster (Games Room, 1912?)
• The Cowboy (Frederic Remington, 1902)
• National Western Stock Show & Rodeo – Denver Post Ad (197?)
  • Steamboat Springs Promotional Poster?
• Dorothy Oxborough (1922)
• Crying Boy (Dorothy Marie Oxborough, 194?+)
• Native American Girl Child (Dorothy Marie Oxborough, 194?+)
• Native Child (Dorothy Marie Oxborough, 194?+)
• Native Girl with Pigtails (Dorothy Marie Oxborough, 194?+)
• Native Pastel (Dorothy Marie Oxborough, 194?+)
• Touch of Autumn (Gerard Curtis Delano, c. 1930)
  • Similar: Dancing Bears (William Holbrook Beard)
  • Colorado Landscape on a Wood Section (Franklyn Popham Cattermole)
  • Mystery Suite 3 art (4) (Unknown Artist, dates of origin)
• Valentine’s Postcard of Niagara Falls (1907-1915)
• Maid of the Mist Under the Horseshoe Falls Postcard (1959)
  • Mystery Kitchen Art (Kitchen)
• Cooper’s Hawk (James Fenwick Lansdowne, 1974)
• Glaucous-Winged Gull (James Fenwick Lansdowne, 1973)
• After the Bath (Paul Peel, 1890)
• Antique Navajo Weaving Design: Yei Pictorial (Unknown, 1940s-’50s)
• A Woman of Oonalashka (John Webber, 1784)
• A Man of Nootka Sound (John Webber, 1784)
• A Woman of Prince William Sound (John Webber, 1778)
  • Mystery Megargee-style Hare (near 237)
  • English Springer Spaniel (Edwin Megargee, 1940s-50s) – uncertain but extremely likely variant on confirmed original
• The Battle of Sisters Creek/Longue Pointe/The Battle of the Barn (Louise-Amélie Panet-Bercy, 1839)
• Mt. Hood postcard (Francis Kies, 1960s)
  • B&W Face Collage (Unknown artist, unknown date of origin)
• Anonymous Hood River Valley Postcard (1960s)
  • Mystery Jackson Art (Twinhall)
• Dog, Boy, and St. John River (Alex Colville, 1958)
  • Jacob’s Ladder lookalike art (William Blake, 1805?)
  • Mystery Boiler Room Nudes (8) (Boiler Room)
• Supernatural Dream (The Old School Inc., 1973)
• Commoners Crown, Steeleye Span (1975)
  • Mystery 237 artworks (3) (Unknown artists, dates of origin)
• Mandarin Ducks (Basil Ede, 1958-1979)
• Fox Resting (Ralph Thompson, 1960s)
• Portrait of a Fox: Alert (Ralph Thompson, 1960s)
• Baby Leopard on a Rock (Ralph Thompson, 1970s)
• Turdus Pilaris (John Gould and Henry Constantine Richter, 1837)
• Pyrrhula Vulgaris (John Gould and Henry Constantie Richter, 1837)
• Blackbird (John Gould, Henry Constantine Richter, 1862-1873(?))
• Alcedo Ispida (John Gould, William Matthew Hart, 1862-1873)
  • Mystery 237 artworks (3) (Unknown artists, dates of origin)
• The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1774 (Jacob Philipp Hackert, 1774(?))
  • Similar: Bay of Islands (Franklin Carmichael)
  • Similar: Brittany Spaniel (Robert Abbett)
  • Similar: Dachshund sketch (Charles Tunnicliffe)
• Makah Returning in Their War Canoes (Paul Kane, 1845-1859)
• Maligne Lake, Jasper Park (Lawren Harris, 1924)
  • Similar: Baie St. Paul (AY Jackson)
  • Irene Reid Promotional Picture (1975?)
  • Similar: Kildeer Plovers (JF Lansdowne)
  • Mystery BJ Well Art (5) (Unknown artists, dates of origin)
  • Similar: Pattern Littoral (Robert Genn)
  • Similar: Derwentwater (Roland Stead)
• Moon and Cow (Alex Colville, 1963)
• The Johnson House, Hanover (Carl Schaefer, 1932-42)
  • Similar: Study of a Girl’s Head (Thomas Eakins)
  • Similar: Broughton Island (Doris McCarthy)
• Unidentified Vesuvius painting (Unknown Artist, 1890s)
• Muskox Illustration (Elizabeth McClelland, 1970s?)
• Beaver Swamp – originally Evening, Algoma (Lawren Harris, 1920-1923)
• Arpeggio (Frederick Horsman Varley, 1932-37)

• Special: Unrecognizable Art
• Special: The Overlook Wall Rugs
• Special: Alex Colville (Aug. 24, 1920)
• Special: The Group of Seven (1920-1933) – group of Canadian painters whose work figures largely

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Literature

• Scientific American (Mar. 1978)
• Burda Moden (Apr. 1978)
• Catch-22 (Joseph Heller, Nov. 10, 1961)
• The Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger, July 16, 1951 – serial ‘45-‘46)
• Hotel & Motel Red Book (American Hotel & Motel Association, 1973?)
• Travel (Ullman’s desk – uncertain origin)
• Snow White (Dec. 20, 1812)
• Mystery Golf Like the Greats Towel/Paper (Boulder Kitchen)
• Snoopy (October 4, 1950)
• Good News Bible
• Teeny Weeny Adventures (1973 – possibly earlier as well)
• Gingerbread Men (16^th Century (c. 1558) – Later, May 1875)
• Special: The Torrance-Hallorann Shared Library
• The Door (Mary Roberts Reinhart, 1930)
• The Denver Post (1892)
• The Vela Incident, news article (Sept. 23, 1979)
• The New York Review of Books (February 1, 1963)
  • The following are articles from the two New York Review of Books issues
  • Ada, Countess of Lovelace (Doris Langley Moore, 1977)
  • Black Odyssey (Nathan Irvin Huggins, Jan. 1, 1977)
  • A Captive of Time (Olga Ivanskaya, 1978)
  • China and America: The Search for a New Relationship (William J. Barnds (ed), Aug. 1, 1977)
  • China, Oil, and Asia, Conflict Ahead? (Selig S. Harrison, Jan 1, 1977)
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, Leslie Waller, Jan. 1, 1977)
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Nov. 16, 1977)
  • The Courts of Europe: Politics, Patronage, and Royalty 1400-1800 (AG Dickens, Jan. 1, 1977)
  • Dasher: The Roots and the Rising of Jimmy Carter (Jan. 1st, James Wooten)
  • The Death of Woman Wang (Jonathan Spence, 1978)
  • Discipline and Punish: The Birth of a Prison (Michel Foucault, 1975)
  • Eleanor Marx (Yvonne Kapp, Jun. 1977)
  • Four Rossettis: A Victorian Biography (Stanley Weintraub, 1978)
  • The Great Spectacular (Graham Greene, Jan. 26, 1978)
  • The Hynek UFO Report (Dec. 1977)
  • Illness as Metaphor (Susan Sontag, 1978)
  • James at an Awkward Age (Veronica Geng, May 18, 1978)
  • Leon Battista Alberti (Franco Borsi, 1978)
  • The Long Work of Liberty (George Konrad, Jan. 26, 1978)
  • Loving (Henry Green, 1945)
  • The Mythical Life of D. H. Lawrence (Stephen Spender, Jan. 26, 1978)
  • New York Jew (Alfred Kazin, 1978)
  • The Professors: A Survey of a Survey (Serge Lang, May 18, 1978)
  • Russia in Original Photographs 1860-1920 (Marvin Lyons, 1978)
  • The State of the Union (Sheldon S. Wolin, May 18, 1978)
  • A Time of Gifts (Patrick Leigh Fermor, 1977)
  • Tolstoy Remembered (Tatyana Tolstoy, 1975)
  • Transatlantic Blues (Wilfrid Sheed, 1978)
  • True Confessions (John Gregory Dunne, 1977)
  • The United Front: The TUC and the Russians 1923-1928 (Daniel F. Calhoun, Jul. 8, 1976)
  • Why Israel Should Settle Now (Guido Goldman, May 18, 1978)
  • Will I Be On Television? (Ladislav Hejdanek, May 18, 1978)
• My Name Is Asher Lev (Chaim Potok, Mar. 12, 1972)
• Holding On (Mervyn Jones, Jan. 1, 1973)
• The Tower (Richard Martin Stern, 1973)
• Mystery Europe Book (Boulder Apartment, Miami Apartment)
• Trapeze (May 30, 1956 – Possibly a stretch)
• In This House of Brede (Rumer Godden, Jan. 1, 1969)
• Angell, Pearl and Little God (Winston Graham (Jan. 1, 1970)
• Caesar: A Biography (Christian Meier, 1969)
• Charles Dickens (Feb. 7, 1812)
• The Chimes (December 16th, 1844)
• A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens, December 19th, 1843)
• The Cricket on the Hearth (December 20, 1845)
• The Wish Child (Ina Seidel, 1930)
• The Manipulator (Diane Cilento, 1967)
• No End to the Way (Neville Jackson, 1965)
• Dr. Nyet (Ted Mark, 1966)
• Tiger of the Snows (Tenzing Norgay and John Ramsey Ullman, 1955)
• Young Jethro (Roy Clews, Jan. 28, 1977)
• Squaresville: The Teen’s Guide to Adult Behaviour, Jan and Stan Berenstain (1965)
• The Fourth Ghost Book, James Turner (ed) (1968)
• The Beach Girls, John D. Macdonald (1959)
• The Death Dealers (Mickey Spillane, 1966)
• King Oil (Max Catto, Jan. 1, 1970)
• China Flight (Pearl S. Buck, April 1945) – Possibly Wrong
• Orange Wednesday, Leslie Thomas (1967)
• Mystery Boulder Books (4) (Boulder Apartment)
• The Deadly Streets, Harlan Ellison (1958 – possibly inaccurate)
• Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs (1959 — possibly inaccurate)
• The Killing Frost (Max Catto, 1950 – possibly a stretch)
• Switzerland: The Awful Truth (Jean Zeigler, 1979 – likely inaccurate)
• Playgirl (Jan. 1, 1978)
• Travel Holiday (1977 – uncertain volume)
• Hansel and Gretel (Dec. 20, 1812)
• Glamour (Magazine) (Apr. 1939)
• Glamour (May, 1978)
• Winnie-the-Pooh (February, 1924)
• Phonebooks (Probably 1978-79, but not clear)
• The White Man’s Burden (Rudyard Kipling, Feb. 4, 1899)
• Car and Driver (Mar. 1978)
• The Masque of the Red Death (Edgar Allen Poe, May 1842)
• Jeeves (1915)
• Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866)
• MASH (Richard Hooker, 1968 – fairly certain)
• Businessweek (September 1929 — uncertain volume)
• Field and Stream (Jan. 1978)
• Di-Acro Flier (Unknown date)
• Sirens and Lights (Unknown author, date of origin)
• Peter Pan (JM Barrie, 1902) – referenced subtextually
• Little Red Riding Hood (10th-17th Century)
• Outdoor Life (Early 1978)
• All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy (Appeared in James Howell’s Proverbs in English, Italian, French and Spanish, 1659; Maria Edgeworth’s Harry and Lucy Concluded, 1825; Karl Marx’s Das Kapital, 1867; James Joyce’s Araby, 1914; the Laurel and Hardy film Sons of the Desert, 1933; and the 1957 film Bridge on the River Kwai; Jack Kerouac’s Big Sur, 1962)
• Bomber Pilot: A Memoir of World War II (Philip Ardery, 1978)
• The Works of William Shakespeare (1589-1614) (Julius Caesar – 1599, possibly also The Tempest – 1610-1611)
• Time Magazine
• Three Little Pigs (June 19, 1890 – first print version was in the 1840s, fairy tale itself thought to go back further)
• Special: Victoria Holt
• Special: Julius Caesar (Jul. 12-13, 100 BC – Mar. 15, 44 BC)

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Film and Television

• Bugs Bunny (April 30, 1938) – seen on Danny’s shirt, and stuffed toy seen in lobby — character referenced by multiple characters
• Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner (Sept. 17, 1949)
• Stop! Look! And Hasten! (August 14, 1954)
• Tom & Jerry (Feb. 10, 1940 – Sept. 8, 1967)
• Peanuts
• Woodstock (April 4, 1967)
• Dopey – Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (December 21, 1937)
• Mickey and Minnie Mouse (Nov. 18, 1928) – stickers on Danny’s door, and Mickey appears again on a sweater
• Carson City (June 13, 1952)
• Goofy (May 25, 1932) – doll/puppet seen in Danny’s Boulder bedroom
• Emergency! (1972-1979)
• Easy Rider (Jul. 14, 1969)
• Keep America Beautiful Ad (1971) – referenced (maybe) by signs on the garbage cans outside the Overlook
• Tony the Tiger (1952) – food mascot
• News Show Wendy Watches (Bertha Lynn)
• Julius Erving (Feb. 22, 1950) – seen on poster in Overlook radio room
• The Harlem Globetrotters (Sept. 12, 1970)
• Dalli! Dalli! (Lobby, unknown episode, 1972-1979)
• Brewster McCloud (Dec. 5, 1970)
• Summer of ’42 (April 18, 1971)
• Newswatch 10 (Glenn Rinker, Ann Bishop and Walter Cronice, 1979-80) – news program watched by Hallorann
• To Itch His Own (1958)
• Special: TV Symmetry
• KHOW (Hal and Charlie, 1964) – radio station, heard by Hallorann
• Special: Jack’s Four References
• Johnny Carson (Oct. 23, 1925) – referenced by Jack
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (Oct. 1, 1962)
• The Gold Rush (Jun. 26, 1925 – possibly a stretch)
• True Grit (Jun. 11, 1969 – possibly a stretch)
• Thriller (Apr. 10, 1973)
• Special: Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are (Jun. 29, 1974)

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MUSIC

• De Natura Sonoris No. 1, Krzysztof Penderecki (April 7, 1966)
• De Natura Sonoris No. 2 (Krzysztof Penderecki, December 3, 1971)
• Dies Irae, Thomas of Celano, redone by Wendy Carlos (13^th Century, possibly older)
• The Dream/Awakening of Jacob (Krzysztof Penderecki, August 14, 1974)
• Home (Henry Hall and the Gleneagles, 1932+)
• Instant Karma (Plastic Ono Band, Feb. 1970) – album that inspired the film/novel’s name
• It’s All Forgotten Now, (Al Bowlly, Ray Noble and his Orchestra, Sept. 26, 1934)
• Kanon (Krzysztof Penderecki, Sept. 21, 1962)
• Krzysztof Penderecki (Nov. 23, 1933)
• Lontano (György Ligeti, 1967)
• Masquerade (Jack Hylton and His Orchestra, Sept. 23 1932)
• Midnight, the Stars and You (Al Bowlly, Ray Noble and his Orchestra, 1934)
• Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (Béla Bartók, Sept. 7, 1936)
• Polymorphia (Krzysztof Penderecki, April 16, 1962)
• Utrenja, Ewangelia and Kanon Paschy (Krzysztof Penderecki, 1970 and 1971)

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HISTORICAL REFERENCES

• Adolf Hitler (Apr. 20, 1889 – Apr. 30, 1945) – referenced subtextually, but innumerably
• Alcoholics Anonymous (1935, possibly incorrect–there’s a shape seen twice around the Torrance living room that looks like their logo)
• Carl Yastrzemski (Aug. 22, 1939) – associated with Louisville slugger
• The Donner Party (May 1846 – February 1847) – mentioned first by Wendy to Jack and Danny
• Dwight D. Eisenhower (Oct. 14, 1890 – Mar. 28, 1969) – the Hal and Charley show mentions an Eisenhower tunnel being closed
• Jimmy Carter (Oct. 1, 1924)
• Portland, Maine (1632) – mentioned by Jack to Lloyd
• Portland, Oregon (1845) – mentioned by Jack to Lloyd
• Timberline Lodge (1936, Mount Hood, Oregon)
• Timbuktu (5th Century BC) – mentioned by Jack to Lloyd
• US Forest Service (Feb. 1, 1905)

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TOYS & GAMES

• American Wheels
• Bull Riders?
• Candyland (1949)
• Darts and Billiards
• Fuzzy Felt Farm
• Sewing Cards
• Snakes and Ladders (2nd century AD)
• Jumbo Tiddledy Winks (1963 – copyright goes back to the 20s for standard)
• Ultimate (1968)

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THE MIRRORFORM ⎔ THE BEATLES ⎔ THE RUM AND THE RED
BACKGROUND ART ⎔ OVERLOOK PHOTOGRAPHS ⎔ GOLDEN SPIRALS
PHI GRIDS ⎔ PATTERNS ⎔ VIOLENCE AND INDIGENA ⎔ ABSURDITIES
THE STORY ROOM ⎔ ANIMAL SYMBOLS ⎔ THE ANNOTATED SHINING

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