Hungarian Revolution Boy with Molotov Cocktail, Soviet Troops , ca. 1943

This work sells itself. Just look at it, and an elaborate explanation is not required. There is virtually no one alive who can paint a picture like Crockwell.
Crockwell offers the viewer a complex and inventive composition by showing two wonderful portraits in the foreground and, beyond a broken wall, a roaring battle scene. According to Professor Patrick Leech, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History at Anderson University, "the painting is about Soviet troops quashing the Hungarians in 1956. The most obvious clue is that the badge on the woman's coat is the Hungarian crest."
The work is rendered with masterful exactitude, capturing a heroic moment.
Provenance: National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, Rhode Island.
Hand-signed by artist, sticker label, Signed lower left.

Douglass Crockwell,American, 1904–1968

Oil on Masonite, 35 -29 inches , US$58,000  Plus Shipping