Per the American Folk Art Museum
“Combat veteran Richard Saholt survived World War II relatively unscathed physically, but he barely made it through emotionally. In addition to frequent blackouts stemming from concussions that he received while serving in Italy with the U.S. Army, he suffered injuries to his back and legs.
They were minor problems compared to the monumental psychological trauma that he experienced during the war. When he finally was able to gain access to his military records in 1969, he discovered that upon enlistment he had been diagnosed with chronic undifferentiated schizophrenia and had never been told about it.
The anger that Saholt felt from the army’s deception, compounded with its refusal to award his disability benefits, found their way into the small collages that marked the beginning of his art-making practice in the mid-1960s.”
RICHARD SAHOLT Untitled (World War II Terror!) (Late 20th century to early 21st century) // Collage on cardboard; 28 inches × 44 inches
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