Prior Image 
10/06/2012 - 09/01/2013
American Visionary Art Museum
800 Key Highway
Baltimore, MD
800 Key Highway
Baltimore, MD
Art and Remembrance is a non-profit, arts and educational organization that seeks to change people's hearts and minds by illuminating the experience of war, oppression, and injustice through the power and passion of personal narrative in art.
PICKING CHERRIES
No. 34
(From the picture): "July 1954. In the yard of our house in Brooklyn, I climbed to the top of the tree and sent down buckets of cherries to my two girls, Bernice and Helene. A neighbor boy called to Bernice to ask who was in the tree and could not believe it when she told him it was her mother. When I was a little girl, my grandmother had told me that money grew on trees in America. 'Buba,' I said, 'I'm good at climbing trees!' 'I know,' she said. I remembered that story whenever I picked cherries from that tree."
Embroidery and fabric collage, 1996.
32-11/16"W x 37-1/16"H.
Gallery narration by Esther's daughters.
(From the picture): "July 1954. In the yard of our house in Brooklyn, I climbed to the top of the tree and sent down buckets of cherries to my two girls, Bernice and Helene. A neighbor boy called to Bernice to ask who was in the tree and could not believe it when she told him it was her mother. When I was a little girl, my grandmother had told me that money grew on trees in America. 'Buba,' I said, 'I'm good at climbing trees!' 'I know,' she said. I remembered that story whenever I picked cherries from that tree."
Embroidery and fabric collage, 1996.
32-11/16"W x 37-1/16"H.
Gallery narration by Esther's daughters.