Among the jobs he held were with the Works Progress Administration (WPA) as a mural painter and at Fawcett Publications, illustrating backgrounds for the Captain Marvel comic strip. My silent admirer and supplier, he had been torn between his dread of my leading a life of hardship and his real pride in my work.” Out in the WorldĮzra received three art school scholarships after high school, but instead he worked to help support his family and took art classes whenever he could.
Ezra had to identify the body, and in an interview with his friend, the poet Lee Bennett Hopkins, he said: “There in his wallet were worn and tattered newspaper clippings of the notices of the awards I had won. Tragically, Benjamin died of a heart attack the day before Ezra’s high school graduation, at which he was to be awarded the senior class medal for excellence in art.
Nevertheless, Benjamin, who worked as a waiter, still brought home tubes of paint, pretending he had traded them with penniless artists for food. Although Ezra’s mother was supportive of his talent, his father worried that Ezra wouldn’t be able to earn a living. Sister and brother Mae and Willie, with baby EzraĮzra’s family had always been poor but during the Great Depression of the 1930s, many, including the Katz family, suffered even greater hardships.
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