Sculptureworks, Inc.

George R. Anthonisen
"Death and Starvation"
Bronze, Edition of 6
22" x 20" x 17"

Part of the permanent collection of the World Health Organization (Geneva, Switzerland).

death and starvation

Photograph by Stephen Perloff.
Above: "Death and Starvation" is shown at the Sculptureworks, Inc. 2003 "Touching Leaves . . ." Sculpture Show and Sale in Danville, IL. Photograph by show volunteer Russell Kile.

Above: "Death and Starvation" at the Sculptureworks, Inc. 2001 "The Garden of Eden" Sculpture Show and Sale at the Memphis Botanic Garden in Memphis, TN.

Left: "Death and Starvation" at the Sculptureworks, Inc. 2003 "Beauties, Beasts, and Books . . . " Sculpture Show and Sale at the Biedenharn Museum in Monroe, LA. Photograph by Elizabeth Loggins.

"Death and Starvation" is a symbol for the International Workshop on Alleviation of Poverty and Starvation and Improvement of Health as Prerequisites for Peace, held at the World Health Organization (Geneva, Switzerland). The sculpture, showing a skeletal figure of Death, wearing a hood that is suggestive of an Army helmet, holding an emaciated child, was purchased by Yohei Sasakawa, director of the Japan Shipping Industry Foundation, for the World Health Organization. Sasakawa, who is one of Japan's "National Treasures," is known for his world-wide philanthropies. The purchase was arranged by Norman F. Borlaug, who has received a Nobel Prize and other international honors for his work, called the "Green Revolution," in improving maize and wheat production to alleviate hunger in India.

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