November 22, 2002
Photo: Heave Away
Joseph Hirsch #15
Watercolor, circa, 1943
Gift of Abbott Laboratories
30 1/2h" x 38 1/2w"
88-159-FO
Lines fast and beaching gear in place, a Navy PRM patrol bomber swings tail-to to the seaplane ramp preparatory to being hauled ashore after a patrol flight. Supervising the operation from the wing is an officer of the plane crew. Note the stinger gun in the big tail.
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy --common clay, if you like --eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others --the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes....Jean Anouilh.
song playing....House of the Rising Sun