text watercolor drawing "Three Boys" by artist Joe Hardesty
Three Boys
watercolor on paper
26" x 40.5"
2008

Text transcription:

This drawing is of three teenage boys cooling off in the water of a rust-stained river. One of the boys has been hit with a rock and is bleeding from the temple. The river water dilutes the crimson blood flowing down his face to murky pink dribble at his chin.




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