Paintings often blur the line between reality and imagination, depicting symbolic, allegorical, or entirely fictional scenes that exist only in the artist’s mind.
But it is highly unlikely that a century-old artwork would depict a smartphone, a technology not invented until 2007.
However, that is exactly what many believe about Italian artist Umberto Romano’s 1937 work, Mr. Pynchon and the Settling of Springfield, hanging on one wall of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Office Building.
