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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...

hope you enjoy, thank you for your time. particulars: oil paint on canvas; charcoal pencil on paper; pyrography in basswood; oil pastels on paper, and acrylic on walls (murals) - squinting whilst viewing encouraged!