Molly Crabapple "Straightening Rebar in Gaza"

Molly Crabapple "Straightening Rebar in Gaza" 2015

Pen, Ink and Dye on Paper
Dimensions: 12 x 16 in, Framed 27 x 24.5 in
Unique
Signed on Recto, Includes Certificate of Authenticity

Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer whose inspirations include Toulouse Lautrec, Diego Rivera and Goya’s ‘The Disasters of War.’ She is the co-author of Brothers of the Gun, an illustrated collaboration with Syrian war journalist Marwan Hisham, which was a NY Times Notable Book and long-listed for the 2018 National Book Award. Her memoir, Drawing Blood, received global praise and attention. Her animated films have been nominated for three Emmys and won an Edward R. Murrow Award. 

Crabapple’s reportage has been published in the New York Times, New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, The New Yorker and Rolling Stone. She was the 2019 artist-in-residence at NYU’s Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies in 2019, a New America fellow in 2020, and the winner of the Bernhardt Labor Journalism Award in 2022. In 2023, she was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, working on a history of the Jewish Labor Bund.

“I drew this in 2015 when I visited the Gaza Strip.  While I was walking through the Shejaiya neighborhood that the Israeli military destroyed the previous year, I saw Palestinian men straightening rebar from a bombed-out building.  The strip was and is besieged, with a limit on construction materials, so the men were salvaging the rebar to rebuild. May Gaza rebuild again.” - Molly Crabapple