Dorothy Grafly
VIETNAM DRAWINGS: Isa Barnett, one of four illustrators sent to Vietnam to sketch the war is exhibiting at Johnny Aiello’s “Gallery Pane Vino”, 20th St. South of Pine.
Featured in U.S. News and World Report, some of the original drawings are now on view here.
Barnett’s war coverage, however, goes back in history to the Revolution and the “Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown,” and progresses through the Civil War to the present. But while prior wars have been reconstructed via props (swords, uniforms, etc.), many of which are also included in the present show, the Vietnam conflict, with eye-witness experience, has a poignant first-hand validity that is not confined to battles and artifacts.
Barnett is a master in the handling of line, and among his unforgettable drawings are those of a Vietnamese mother, protectively fondling her baby; and a dead baby, prone and nude on the prongs of barbed wire.
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