Louis Monza (American, born Italy 1897 - 1984) Tears For An Unborn Child, 1963 terra-cotta 15 x 11 x 7.25" LM 50 An emigré from Italy, Louis Monza was a socialist and a confirmed pacifist. His philosophy and beliefs informed his work and the voice he found in his art is one of protest and reproach reaching up from the working class to a world he perceived as cruel and unreasoned. As he matured as a man and an artist in his adopted California, this voice mellowed as he turned from what was to what might be. Monza died at the age of eighty-seven after a prolific life of making art for forty-five years. A self-taught master of many media, he left a body of work including paintings, sculptures in bronze and terra-cotta, woodcuts, monotypes, assemblages, and drawings-his testament of a celebration of life and the human spirit.