Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
A gouache on paper painting titled Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Nicha Sursock. This is part of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA.
The tense stand-off that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. President J. F. Kennedy, a US commander, Cuban leaders Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev and the artist as a Cuban Guerillero.
