Asylum

-- the fear of it

Asylum, oil on canvas, 1949
Private Collection, USA

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Executed while I was studying at Maryland Institute College of Art. Among the students were many veterans of World War II who were pursuing studies under the G.I.Bill. Still not liberated from the horrors of combat four years after that conflict had ended, many were tormented by the inability to successfully re-enter civilian life.

Asylum was painted under exposure to a few of these young men seriously damaged, their behavior often dangerously close to madness, threatening commitment to mental institutions. Most eventually found their bearings; but one, who resurfaced much later in my life, had never escaped the ravages of what he'd experienced as a young man.

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