UTW2

Man with tattered coat in the Warsaw Ghetto

Art: 1992
Media: India ink on cream etching paper
Framed, 38 inches H x 26 W [96.5 cm. H x 66 W]

The second drawing of the Under the Wings art series. Drawn from a photo of a man, perhaps in his 20's or 30's whose coat appears to be completely unraveling and completely disintegrating.

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I was struck by his gaze directly into the camera's lens, and his look which was not dissimilar to young homeless men and women I see in downtown Seattle everyday.  As in photos of other people taken by Nazi soldiers in the Warsaw Ghetto, this man sits on the sidewalk, waiting...death would have soon followed

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The wings were drawn at the ornithology lab, Burke Museum of Natural History, Univ. of Washington, Seattle.
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The framing was a gift of the Museum of History & Industry, Seattle, Washington, where the drawing was exhibited, 1994.

Exhibits, selected (this is an incomplete list)

• Hillel Center, University of Washington, Seattle (1992)

• Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (1994)

• Broadway Market, Seattle’s Capitol Hill district (1994)

• B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Washington, DC (1994)

• Western Illinois University, Macomb (2004)

• Stephens College, Davis Art Gallery, Columbia, Missouri (2007)

• Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington (2007)