November 16, 2002
Photo:
Women at Work
Howard Baer #3
Gouache, 1943
Gift of Abbott Laboratories
26h" x 23w"
88-159-T
In coveralls with grease on their hands, WAVE machinists may be seen on the working platform of a seaplane ramp. Working side by side with their male contemporaries, they lend a capable hand on engine check and problems of maintenance.
A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around....Edgar Watson Howe.
song playing....Fly Like An Eagle