oha 2010

Drawing of a concrete gate at the Great Synagogue of Rome, 2010

Art: 2010, drawn on-site
Media: Ink
Framed,  14 1/4 in. H x 18 1/8 W
Paper size (in the mat:): 9 7/8 in. H x 11 1/4 W

I drew this on-site, 'en plein aire,' seated outdoors with my back against a tree, facing one side of the exterior of the Great Synagogue of Rome, Italy.

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A video about the Under the Wings series drawing of Eugenio Curiel includes footage I took on walks along the banks of the Tiber River in Rome, 2010.

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During the Nazi military occupation of Rome, at least 1,800 Jewish Italians in Rome were arrested and transported to Nazi death camps where most were murdered.
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Also see (and in Youtube videos of the individual drawings)

  • UTW 48: Italian Jewish resistance hero Eugenio Curiel

  • UTW 53: Hagadah Leone Ginsburg

  • UTW 56: Fiorella Anticoli of Rome

  • UTW 66: Italian anti-Fascist partisan Sandro Delmastro

  • Other Holocaust Art: Rita Rosani of Trieste

  • Other Holocaust Art: A concrete gate, Great synagogue of Rome

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