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Homeless
Leo Katz (American, born in Czechoslovakia, 1887–1982)
1944
Medium/Technique
Lithograph
Credit Line
Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich
Accession Number51.1889
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Katz (2022) p. 27
DescriptionArtist's description: "During a summer in Patzcuaro, Mexico towards the end of my vacation, the first reports of an outbreak of war in Europe arrived. That night I saw an old lonely woman, head and face covered with her Rebozo, and I suddenly had a feeling that this figure which had no individual features looked like a symbol of that enormous wave of homelessness which I felt coming all over the world. I made a quick sketch which I later worked into a large watercolor and an oil painting. By 1944, the number of homeless people grew to such proportions that I drew this on a stone to make a print."
ProvenanceMr. L. Aaron Lebowich, Boston, MA; by whom given 9/13/1951