Currency

What Do You Live For? “Grant”
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Reverse side
DHR Butcher back


  • Robin Clark
  • What Do You Live For? “Grant”
  • 2009 ( Destroyed by Fire July, 2024)
  • Oil on Currency, Currency Ink Dust in Pipettes, Pine, Rosewood and Maple Hardwoods
  • 10.75" x 8.25"

  • Context

    Pencil work up. ( Destroyed by Fire July, 2024)

    Grant Drawing

    His nickname among the troops was “The Butcher”. His administration was rife with corruption and scandal.  He was a notorious alcoholic.   I wanted to say something about the costs of war and of freedom.