Napoleon Entering New York

c. 1957, aquatint, 14¾ x 17¾ in.

Eli Siegel said of this work, in an Aesthetic Realism Art Inquiry, February 17, 1960:

“The title that comes to mind is ‘To Be Real Is More Important than to Be Emperor.’ An important thing is this: Is there here some dealing with the individual and democracy?—meaning that there is a certain kind of democracy, ‘allness,’ represented by the boy, and this is in play: a saying that one’s reality is more important than the pushing sense of one’s individuality.”

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