A nearly 90-year-old painting has generated online buzz and a bizarre conspiracy — that an indigenous man depicted in the artwork is holding a contemporary smartphone.
“Mr. Pynchon and the Settling of Springfield,” by Italian American muralist Umberto Romano, depicts the indigenous man alongside other tribesmen and early English colonists in 17th-century Springfield, then part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
“iPhone in painting from 1937 JUST DISCOVERED???” wrote one poster on X Tuesday.
“Now that one actually looks like a cell phone,” another user reportedly posted.
The man can be seen front and center within the artwork, which was created in…
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