Portraits

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Framed drawing of Anny Coury by artist Deborah Howard. Drawing is full color with red, orange, and yellow abackground. Anny Coury is looking towards the viewer.

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Framed drawing of Ava Kadishson Schieber by artist Deborah Howard. Drawing is in full color and wears a green turtleneck shirt. Ava Kadishson Schieber is looking towards the viewer.

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Box contains 39 envelopes of photographs the artist took during her interviews with participants for reference during creating the final portraits.

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Two foam core boards used with exhibition. One is of the cover of the portrait booklet and the other shows the four portraits at Yad Vashem and a photo of the building.

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Framed drawing of David Schichor by artist Deborah Howard. Drawing is in black and white, he wears a patterned collared shirt and glasses. David Schichor is looking towards the viewer.

Abstract Deborah Howard is an Associate Professor and Head of Painting Program at the University of Denver. After a discussion on racial stereotypes and aging in a Figure Painting course Howard was teaching, she began to develop her Portraits of Child Holocaust Survivors project and settled on drawing as the media for the project. Howard has drawn and painted twenty-five people who escaped, hid or survived concentration camps during the Jewish Holocaust of WWII. Four portraits from the project are...

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Framed drawing of Don Altman by artist Deborah Howard. Drawing is largely black and white with bits of red on the rim of his glasses. Don Altman is looking slightly over his right shoulder towards the viewer.

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Framed drawing of Esther Wasserman by artist Deborah Howard. Drawing is black and white with red and orange highlights in her hair. Esther Wasserman is turned slightly to the left and looking towards the viewer.

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Framed drawing of Harry Lopas by artist Deborah Howard. Drawing is largely black and white with yellow accents. Harry is looking off in the distance.

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Framed drawing of Imre Frankovitz by artist Deborah Howard. Background colors of blue, green, orange and red; Imre wears a blue plaid shirt. Imre Frankovitz is looking towards the viewer.