Drawing with Harry: A visit to the V.A.
I’m down in Maryland taking care of my parents while my sister is in South America for a week or so. She apparently thought it would be nice to spend every day at a different doctor’s office. One appointment a day. My dad takes his drawing book to the Veteran’s Administration medical center and draws vet patients in the waiting room. One day a woman who he had been drawing looked at his sketch and said, “You should go into the business.” He’s 91, and spent World war ll in the South Pacific jungles as a reconnaissance officer, before spending the rest of his life as an artist.
I apologize for some of the poor photo quality.
These are Harry Bennett’s drawings:
Here I drew Harry contemplating lunch.
September 30, 2010 at 5:09 pm
This is a terrific post. Thanks for sharing your father’s drawings and the anecdote. Love his illustrationgs. My mom is 96 and I go to Los Angeles a few times a year so my younger sister gets a break from care-giving. It’s always interesting.
September 30, 2010 at 5:47 pm
” Margaret as a Teenager or 30″ and the “Cat as a Woman” are so droll. Dad still has a good sense of humor.