Boston Globe: Artist with a mission: Face by face, to honor their lives

Gina Johnson, with portraits she has drawn. For the past three years, she’s focused on New Englanders who have fallen in war. (Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff)

By Beverly Beckham Globe Columnist / November 14, 2010

She knows their stories. She points to their pictures and tells you that he was from Burlington and she was from Quincy. That he was on his fourth tour of duty when he was killed and that he died in a car crash a few months after he came home from Iraq.

She drew all their faces. She copied them from photos that were in newspapers or were given to her by their relatives. She drew them on 8x10 white card stock, then gave them to a mother, a father, a child, a wife. Read more...