Uncle Aaron

My grandmother kept magazines like this April 30, 1945 Life magazine on her coffee table. The dashing man on the cover is her brother, my great-uncle Aaron Bohrod. Everyone in the family liked the fact that I happened to be born on April 30, though it was 19 years later, in 1959. Uncle Aaron was one of a handful of army artists who were asked to make paintings of what they saw in Europe during WWII for this issue of Life.



Matthew Guerrieri's recent look at Time (the magazine cover, that is) prompted me to search for Uncle Aaron to see if any of his covers for that magazine were on line, and I found two with musical associations:




You can read more about Aaron Bohrod (and see more of his work) here, here,, here, here,
and you can read an interview with him here.