i gave a talk at santa rosa and the city college in san francisco was largely a product of the pwa and has wonderful art work all over it by the art in action project at the treasure island fair. and then there's these special schools for crippled children. this is in the mission district and it's a beautiful school with all the features we take for granted because of the americans with disabilities act. it has wonderful tiles. this was not accidental. this is the sunshine school. we made the school as beautiful as possible to take the children's minds off their problems. it was also crippled children. this might sound familiar to you if you know the history of president roosevelt. he was paralyzed by polio on the threshold of a promising career. he came back and few americans knew how disabled he was. he learned compassion. he learned he could help other people of different races that he never met before. this is what we used his inheritance for. this lead to the polio vaccine. this is one person who reveres him. suzie. she was born with clubbed feet. it's now for spinal diseases. the

but there was expressionism occurring in europe, german artists, a young man like pwas kuwait here innew york. not too dissimilar from the late expressionist style that picasso achieved in his life. for picasso it was complete liberty. it was more about story telling but i think that liberty he gave himself was something that was very inspiring to painters young and old and today now 40 years later we still see the impact of that kind of painting on our artistic production in europe and america. >> rose: was this painting a rage against death and a sense of depression about things? >> i think he thought to stop working was to die and he hoped if he could continue working he would continue to live. so he thought the work was a manifestation of the fact he was still alive and he desperately wanted to live and he didn't want to die. >> rose: jack lean was with him at that time. where do you putter? >> she ran this circus and she made sure everything happened smoothly. so she was there to provide everything he wanted. she would clean his brushes, she would post for him when he asked for i