Season 2, Episode 2

Waldy & Bendy attempt an American art special. But don’t get very far. Also, the timely return of the Waldy & Bendy Awards, where the search is on for the worst statue in Britain.

AMERICAN ART

Man of the Secotan Indians in North Carolina (1585) by John White (1539-1593)

Loggerhead Turtle (1585-1593) by John White

Watercolour of Roanoke Indians by John White

Central panel of The Garden of Earthly Delights (1503-1515) by Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450-1516)

Cliff Dwellers (1913) by George Bellows (1882-1925)

The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone (1893-1901) by Thomas Moran (1837-1926)

Freedom of Speech (1943) by Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)

Roden Crater by James Turrell (1943-)

The Beautyful Ones (2019) by Njideka Akunyili Crosby (1983)

Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art - Waldy's series about American art - is available here on iPlayer and also in our shop.

THE WALDY AND BENDY AWARDS:  BRITAIN'S 5 WORST STATUES

Mary Wollstonecraft (2020) by Maggi Hambling (1945-) in Newington Green

Ernie Wise (2010) by Melanie Wilks in Morley in Leeds

The Meeting Place (2007) by Paul Day (1967-) at St Pancras

Bobby Robson (2007) in Newcastle by Tom Maley

Lloyd George (2007) by Glyn Williams in Parliament Square

Oscar Wilde (1988) by Maggi Hambling in Trafalgar Square

Sir Bobby Robson by Sean-Hedges-Quinn in Suffolk

Bob Stokoe (2006) by Sean Hedges-Quinn in Sunderland

Eric Morecambe (1999) by Graham Ibbeson

ON THE WALL

A Visit from the Old Mistress (1876) by Winslow Homer (1836-1910)

Children's Games (1942) by Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012)