Francis

1998 Oil on Canvas
24″ x 30″ unframed
$1200
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He was a hardy, caring grandfather with zest for life though it was never easy. Born in Austria, brought to Chicago as a baby, trained to be a master furniture-maker, he toiled in a factory creating mining equipment. He felt lucky to have that work, for after all, it was the Depression. He fathered four children but lost his first baby to pneumonia. He loved his family and friends and showed that love with parties lasting into the wee hours. Mellowed by his home-made wine and Grandma’s feasts, guests would strike up a band in the basement. He was destroyed when she died, and though he lived twenty years more, Alzheimer’s and absence of his Mary dimmed his existence.