Andrea puts a name to the 'Portrait of an Unknown Man'
Description
A young man, son of Italian and Ukrainian immigrants living in Canada, was working as an elevator operator at a medical university in the 1930s before opportunity opened a door to become a medical photographer.
That already sounds like the making of a movie, but Andrea’s story starts some years later. The young man is her father and his work in freelance photography included photographing the work of Canadian artist Fred Taylor. Upon meeting, Taylor asked if he could paint the young man’s portrait. And that’s where Andrea’s story starts.
In this installment of Tell Me a Story, Andrea shares her experience with her father and tracking down Portrait of an Unknown Man about 80 years later and bringing it home to her mother. There’s some mystery, there’s some adventure and there’s some nostalgia in thinking about those we love when they were still growing into the people we knew them to be.
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