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Christmas Card with Sid Using a Trowel
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Four-fold, cover with line drawing of a trowel topped by a star standing upright on a broken brick. Inside is a photograph of Sid using a trowel pointing a brick wall in farm field in winter. A simple Christmas tree is drawn on the brick wall. Text inside reads: "MAN is born broken, He is mending all his life and the grace of God is his glue." Black on white.
Boyum, Sid, 1914-1991
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W0143YB
WHi 124606
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