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oha 1984

hayfields, rytro, poland

Art: 1984
Media: pencil, Ink, watercolor
Size: 24 x 40”
Segan - Bruce family collection, New England

Exhibits

  • Gracie’s Restaurant, Seattle, 1987

In 1984, my first trip to Europe, I attended the summer "en plein-aire" (‘plain air,’ aka outdoors art-making) art class session, for foreigners, held at the Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow. Most of the American participants in the summer study sessions at the Academy and at the Jagiellonian University were sponsored by the Kosciuszko Foundation, N.Y. There was a Canadian art history student in the art group and two Britons - one Scottish, from St Andrews, of Polish parentage; the other was English.

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During our stay at a lodge in the rural village of Rytro, southern Poland, I drew 2 landscape drawings. I also did a drawing that became part of Homage to Pawiak Prison, 1984. The other landscape drawing was Rytro hayfields (collection of the artist)  

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The pre-Holocaust Polish Jewish population of the region where Rytro is located, called Nowy Sącz, was reportedly 25,000 people; 95% of whom were murdered by the Nazis.

 I attended the summer "en plein-aire" (‘plain air,’ aka outdoors art-making) art class session, for foreigners, held at the Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow. Most of the American participants in the summer study sessions at the Academy and at the Jagiellonian University were sponsored by the Kosciuszko Foundation, N.Y. There was a Canadian art history student in the art group and two Britons - one Scottish, from St Andrews, of Polish parentage; the other was English.

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During our art group’s stay at a lodge in the rural village of Rytro, southern Poland, I drew 2 landscape drawings; and drawing that later became part of Homage to Pawiak Prison, 1984.

The other landscape drawing I did outside there was Hayfields, Rytro. 

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In the Rytro Metamorphosis drawing one will see the shape of a walking or running animal. There is also a bird image.
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The pre-Holocaust Polish Jewish population of the region where Rytro is located, called Nowy Sącz, was reportedly 25,000 people; 95% of whom were murdered by the Nazis.