Grandma's Family
by Sean Connolly
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Title
Grandma's Family
Artist
Sean Connolly
Medium
Drawing - Charcoal On Paper
Description
This charcoal pencil on paper artwork was completed Dec 24, 1988.
. . A brief history in time - Sicily, circa 1915:
Matriarch of my wife's family, this is her grandmother Maria at approximately age 3 with her mother and baby sister.
She survived a hard-knock childhood.
Her father moved to America without them.
Compounding with that, her mother and sister both shortly after died.
Maria grew up in a tough Sicilian orphanage.
At age 18 she finally left that place.
Her father, who had remarried here in America, finally sent for her.
With a deathly fear of the ocean, and without knowing a soul onboard, she alone sailed the Atlantic Ocean to the United States.
Met at Ellis Island by her father, she now lived with her NEW family in a NEW land in the North End of Boston.
Two years later she met the love of her life, got married, settled in East Boston, and begat a large, loving family which eventually begat the love of my own life.
Maria lived a long, happy life thereafter in that same Eastie triple-decker. She died on August 11, 2003 at the age of 91.
I drew this artwork for her as a Christmas present in 1988 - my meager attempt to thank her for her love (I got her seal of approval!),
my wife, and the phenomenal homemade soups she made for me that nourished my spirit as well as my belly.
She had a heart as big as the sky.
She had good, solid horse-sense.
She was the grandmother I never had.
- Shine on, Gram.
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