The Vietnam War By Sarai Sherman

A painting in homage to the civilian victims of the Vietnam War by the artist Sarai Sherman. Signed in the upper right corner. The painting is executed in pastel and tempera on paper stretched over canvas, framed with a simple natural wood frame. On the reverse, it bears a label from an exhibition in Italy commemorating resistance movements. The painting itself measures 100 x 69 cm. Sarai Sherman was an American artist born in Pennsylvania in 1922. A scholarship enabled her to paint in Italy, where she spent part of her career. She is a major figure in Abstract Expressionism, both in America and Europe, exhibiting during her lifetime on both continents at the ACA Galleries and the Forum Gallery in New York, the Fairweather-Hardin Gallery in Chicago, the Madison Gallery in Toronto, the Galleria Nuova Pesa in Rome, the Galliera Viotti in Turin, the Galleria dell'Orso in Milan, and Studio 5 in Bologna. She died in 2013 in New York.