Paintings Illustrate Chicagoan's Memories of Cuban Revolution
In 1958 a Navy sailor from Chicago was briefly onshore in Cuba while the revolution was underway. The sailor, named George Klauba, became first a tattoo artist and then a painter. For years now, he has focused his artistic energy on remembering a moment in history and putting his dreamlike impressions on canvas.
More than War Stories
The artist George Klauba grew up in Chicago in the 1940s. He recalls being at the family home in Marquette Park with his parents and grandparents, listening to them for news of the war. "And I remember riding the streetcar with my mother and seeing people with tattoos that read Death Before Dishonor and Remember Pearl Harbor," he told us.