Drawing
Photo credit: 9/11 Memorial staff
Accession Number: C.2019.20.20
Dimensions: 13 in X 10.5 in
Dimensions (Metric): 33.02 cm X 26.67 cm
Dimensions (Metric): 33.02 cm X 26.67 cm
Source: Joel M. Winston
Credit Line: Gift of Joel Winston, instructor
Description
Pencil and crayon drawing by an adolescent depicting the city skyline with the Twin Towers. Debris is falling, and black crayon—used to represent smoke—is billowing from the tops of the towers. The drawing appears somewhat incomplete, with the bottom half of the page completely blank. It is signed in the lower right corner.
Pencil and crayon drawing by an adolescent depicting the city skyline with the Twin Towers. Debris is falling, and black crayon—used to represent smoke—is billowing from the tops of the towers. The drawing appears somewhat incomplete, with the bottom half of the page completely blank. It is signed in the lower right corner.
Historical Notes
Art teacher Joel Winston gave his art students at the Monroe Academy for Visual Arts & Design in the Bronx an assignment in the initial weeks after 9/11: visualize their impressions of the attacks without consulting the images and footage that were proliferating in the media coverage. Since many of the high school students had witnessed the attacks firsthand from their classroom windows, Winston wanted them to process that experience through their individualized memories and sensory perceptions. The resulting works were unique and visceral, as some students depicted what they saw while others focused on the perpetrators and the broader impacts of terrorism and war.
Art teacher Joel Winston gave his art students at the Monroe Academy for Visual Arts & Design in the Bronx an assignment in the initial weeks after 9/11: visualize their impressions of the attacks without consulting the images and footage that were proliferating in the media coverage. Since many of the high school students had witnessed the attacks firsthand from their classroom windows, Winston wanted them to process that experience through their individualized memories and sensory perceptions. The resulting works were unique and visceral, as some students depicted what they saw while others focused on the perpetrators and the broader impacts of terrorism and war.
