Picnic Wit
  • Food & Drink
    • Cookbooks
    • Gormandizing
    • Menus
    • Recipes
  • Literature & the Arts
    • Art
    • Diary
    • Drama
    • Fiction
    • Film
    • Letters
    • Memoirs
    • Music & Dance
    • Myth
    • Non-Fiction
    • Photography
    • Poetry
    • Sculpture
    • Tapestry
    • Travelogue
  • Themes
    • Allegory
    • Ants and other pests
    • Children & Juvenile
    • Drunk
    • Etiquette
    • Failed Picnics
    • Garden of Love
    • Great God Pan
    • Happy
    • Humor & Satire
    • Hunt Picnics
    • Love
    • Murder & Death
    • No People
    • Political
    • Sex, Lust & Rape
    • Socializing
    • Topsy-turvy
    • Train
    • Trash
    • Travel & Sightseeing
    • Unhappy & Dispirited
    • War
  • Location
    • Arctic & Antartic
    • Backyard
    • Battlefield
    • Beach
    • Cemetery & Tomb
    • Desert
    • Garden
    • Grass, Fields & Forests
    • Hunting
    • Indoors
    • Mars
    • Mountains
    • Race course
    • Riverbank
    • Roadside
    • Ruins
    • Streams, Rivers & Lakes
    • The Moon
    • Urban
    • Vistas
  • Timeline
    • 1-1499
    • 1500-1599
    • 1600-1699
    • 1700-1799
    • 1800-1899
    • 1900-1949
    • 1950-1999
    • 2000-present
Select Page
Lennart Anderson’s Idylls (1955-2015)

Lennart Anderson’s Idylls (1955-2015)

Anderson series of Idylls are picnicky, filled with people happily dancing and singing on the grass. He called the first Bacchanal and the other Idylls. In an interview, Anderson referenced Matisse’s Luxe, Calme et Volupté as a modern arcadian idyll but does not...
Next Entries »

Picnic Quotes

See more Picnic Quotes »

Variations A-Z

  • Allegory
  • Ants and other pests
  • Arctic & Antartic
  • Art
  • Backyard
  • Beach
  • Battlefield
  • Cartoon
  • Cemetery
  • Children & Juvenile
  • Cookbooks
  • Desert
  • Diary
  • Drama
  • Drunk
  • Etiquette
  • Failed Picnics
  • Fiction
  • Film
  • Garden
  • Garden of Love
  • Great God Pan
  • Gormandizing
  • Grass
  • Happy
  • Humor
  • Hunting
  • Indoors
  • Letters
  • Love
  • Mars
  • Menus
  • Memoirs
  • Motorcars
  • Mountains
  • Murder & Death
  • Music & Dance
  • Myth
  • No People
  • Non-Fiction
  • Photography
  • Poetry
  • Political
  • Race Course
  • Recipes
  • Riverbank
  • Roadside
  • Ruins
  • Sculpture
  • Sex, Lust & Rape
  • Socializing
  • Streams, Rivers & Lakes
  • Tapestry
  • The Moon
  • Topsy-turvy
  • Train
  • Trash
  • Travel & Sightseeing
  • Unhappy & Dispirited
  • Urban
  • Vistas
  • War

Picnic Quotes

Picnic Wit

PICNICWIT.com is a comprehensive history of picnics from earliest times to today. It is chiefly an anthology of picnics in the arts, literature, music, and film. It is an enlarged version of the book, The Picnic: A History, by Walter Levy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014).

Walter Levy

Walter Levy writes about picnics and food from a New York town with one traffic light. He is professor emeritus in English at Pace University, New York.

The Book


Mountain View

The Picnic: A History, by Walter Levy
Rowman & Littlefield, 2014
Available on Amazon »

© Picnic Wit. All rights reserved.