Exhibit Shows the Impact of War, Through the Artists and the Soldiers

NY Times - Dr. Matthew Jimenez knows about the fog of war and how families may never learn how a loved one actually died. So he wondered about a dead soldier’s boots. “They would know,” he said. “What story would they tell if they could talk?”

Dr. Jimenez, 50, a trauma surgeon at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge who took up painting in his 40s, put aside his scalpel, picked up his brushes and produced, “Boots of a Fallen Soldier,’ an evocative watercolor of two dog-tag-laced boots. Read more.