Combating anti-immigrant hate, bigotry: 2 drawings on 1939 St Louis ship / art 2017 © A K Segan

Описание: Two drawings, both completed 2017 by artist Akiva Kenny Segan:
The Sea Monsters & the Sailing Ship St Lous 1939
2017.
Size 22 inches H x 32.5 W (unframed)
Media: Ink, gouache, colored pencil, clothing buttons, thread, twine.
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The Sea Beasties & the Sailing Ship.S. St Louis 1939
2017.
Size: 22.5 inches H x 32.5 W (unframed)
Media: Ink, gouache, colored pencil.
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Drawing # 1
The fate of the children (upper porthole) and the young girl (lower left) is not yet known to the artist.
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The young man at lower left was 19 when the ship left Hamburg:
Klaus Helmut Goldschmidt. He was eventually murdered at the Auschwitz mass murder - extermination -death camp.
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Drawing # 2: The fate of the girl at upper left is not yet known to the artist. He hopes to find out info from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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Klaus Helmut Goldschmidt is depicted in both drawings.
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The artist read portions of 2 books for some useful and educational background source material re the history of the ill-fated journey of the St Louis ship and its Jewish passengers:
A children’s book:
To Hope and Back – The Journey of the St Louis. Author: Kathy Kacer.
A Holocaust Remembrance Book for Young Readers.
Second Story Press, Toronto, Canada, 2011. www.secondstorypress.ca
ISBN: 978-1-897187-96-8.
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Alex’s Wake – A Voyage of Betrayal and a Journey of Remembrance.
Author: Martin Goldsmith. DeCapo Press, Boston, Mass. 2014.
ISBN: 978-0-306-82322-0 (hardcover); ISBN : 978-0-306-82323-7 (e-book).
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Seattle based artist and tolerance educator Akiva Kenny Segan, M.F.A., is best
known as the creator of the Under the Wings art series and the Sight-seeing with Dignity human rights art series.
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The Under the Wings series portrays murdered victims of the Nazis and Fascists in Europe, 1933-45, offering audiences a restoration of dignity in memory of the victims.
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He presents exhibits, classes and Drawing for Healing workshops with audiences ages 5 to 100+ in schools, colleges, houses of worship, prisons,
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With exhibits, power-point classes and his Drawing-for-Healing workshop, he guest facilitates tolerance education with art in art museums/galleries, schools, colleges/universities, community centers and other venues in the U.S. and other countries. He has guest taught throughout the U.S., in Britain and Israel.
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His artworks are in numerous art gallery, art museum, corporate, institutional, library, college-university collections in Austria, Canada, France, Hungary, Israel, Scotland and the United States.
Art copyright A.K. Segan






Art copyright Akiva Kenny Segan ©
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