| New Jersey artist Charles Blaze Vukovich
graduated from the national Academy of Design. He also studied at the Art Students league in NYC.In early years he illustrated magazine covers, books, and book jackets, but later he made his living doing large commissioned stained glass windows,steel sculptures, and mosaics for churches around the world,including the Christophers, 12 E. 48th St., NYC, Immaculate Conception church in Newark, NJ, Covenant House, NYC. SS Peter and Paul Church, Omaha, Nebraska. Public sculptures are in Columbus Park, Hackensack NJ, Boys Club, Columbus, Ohio. He received a glowing review in The Washingtonian for his stianed glass windows in Dunbarton College (now Howard U. School of law). His work was exhibited at the at the Bergen Community Museum. There are a number of excellent paintings of industrial Hackensack similar to the one which was acquired by the museum
Glass mosaic was a technique Vukovich used in a playful
and experimental way. these works have glass Especially significant at this time is the
protest work Vukovich did in the late 1960s and early 70s. "Prophets
and Martyrs of the 60s" is a virtual peace march with prominent activists
of the peace and civil rights movements, Father Daniel Berrigan and
Father Philip Berrigan, Martin Luther King Jr. , John F. Kennedy, Robert
F. Kennedy, Dorothy Day,Pierre Teilhard Chardin . The masks are mounted
on tall poles as though they might be removed from their bases, and
used to support and accompany protesters. They are depicted in a
vigorous and forceful manner clearly characteristic of the 1960s.
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