Abe Blashko

American
(1920–2011)

Fragments of the Twentieth Century
1942

Pastel on paper
28.125 x 33.875 x 1 in.
Museum Purchase with the Dorothy Wanlass Endowment Fund
1999.6

Genocide and racism are hallmarks of the Nazis, who during world WWII methodically exterminated as many Jewish people as they could. The horror of Nazis atrocities are summed up in Abe Blashko’s Fragments of the 20th Century.

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This object has the following keywords:

• banners - Pieces of cloth or other flexible material painted with signs or decorative designs and intended to be displayed by hanging or suspending. In heraldry, refers to square flags bearing heraldic devices. For other cloths intended to symbolize or to signal, use "flags."
• bayonets - Edged steel weapons resembling daggers or short swords, designed to be attached to the muzzle end of a firearm barrel.
• cross
• crucifixes - Visual works in the shape of a cross having the figure of Christ crucified.
• death
• mountain ranges - A series of mountains or mountain ridges closely aligned in formation, direction, and age.
• Nazis
• nude
• Rifles
• soldiers - Generally refers to those belonging to an army, whether that of a sovereign state, a faction or division within a sovereign state, or of an individual leader. Specifically refers to military personnel of enlisted rank, as distinguished from commissioned officers. For those trained for or engaged in the physical combat of warfare and sanctioned in that function by the society or group for which they fight, irrespective of actual membership in an army, see "warriors."
• woman

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

• Bang! Thwack! Plop! Comics: An Influence on Contemporary Art , 6/14/2011 - 7/26/2012
• The Day After Tomorrow; Art in Response to Turmoil and Hope Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art , 7/1/2020 - 12/19/2020
• SC Fall 24 – The Historical Jesus in a First Century Jewish Context , 8/30/2024 - 12/13/2024

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