OHRA 1982

Remembering The American Labor Leader Samuel Gompers

Art: 1982. First drawn in the early 1980’s on a rectangular piece of drawing paper.
Media: Pencil, colored pencil, ink
Size: 26.5 in. H x 18 W.

On August 13 & 14, 2018 I re-worked some of the surface areas of the portrait and cut out some sections along the outside areas.

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Gompers was born in London, England, 1850 to an English Jewish family of Dutch descent. The family emigrated to the US in 1853; his teenage years were in New York City. He began working at age 17. He was a founder of the American Federation of Labor, known by the acronym AFL. The AFL later merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, making the acronym AFL-CIO.  Gompers passed on in San Antonio, Texas, 1924, at age 74.