About the artist:

Theo Hios was born in 1908 in Tripi, a little town in Greece just outside of Sparta, and came to the United States when he was twenty-one. The Depression had begun, but he managed to get a job in a restaurant and worked fifteen hours a day, seven days a week. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt's labor reforms were enacted, the legal workweek was reduced to six days a week, ten hours a day, giving Hios a little free time.