Image of a widow dressed in black with a veil on her head, carrying flowers and a watering can through a cemetery. She looks sad. Drawing mounted on another paper taped onto a matte board with brown paper tape. Hole cut in front matte to reveal image. Adhesive label on verso in upper right quadrant, brown ink on paper, drawing of a deer head, says,"Rehkopf - Skizzenbuch / Nr. 976 1/2 b / Groesse 27 x 37 cm / 40 blatt / Schutzmarke weiss, holzfrei Zeichenpapie"
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The drawing was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Harold Shachner.
Leon Schleifer was born in 1900 in Germany. He served in the German army at the end of World War I (1914-1918). He became a political cartoonist and his work was published in the anti-Nazi press. He also specialized in courtroom trial sketches. After the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor in 1933, Schliefer emigrated to the United States. He changed his name to William Sharp and continued his career as an editorial cartoonist and illustrator. His work was published in the New York Times, Life Magazine, and other publications. He died in 1961, age sixty-one years.
Height: 10.630 inches (27 cm) | Width: 6.810 inches (17.297 cm)
Drawing by William Sharp