Anne Frank was a Jewish school girl who lived in Holland. On Anne’s 13th birthday she cheerfully tore into her presents. A dress, a ball, a stuffed dog and also a diary. Under possible Nazi prosecution Anne stole away one night with her parents, her sister, and four family friends to a small set of rooms above her father’s spice shop during the Holocaust for a period of over two and a half years until they were finally betrayed. The diaries which Anne kept are what give this period of World War II a human face. For me, Anne was the innocent conscious of one of the most harrowing periods in world history. Anne Frank’s diaries have been translated into over forty languages, four movie versions and several dramatic revivals on Broadway. The colors I wanted to use are the colors of spring, the colors of life. Tulips are used in this portrait for that reason and as symbolic of her native Amsterdam. Her work is wise beyond its years and fraught with tender emotion and ever present hope. Anne Frank always believed in the possible good in people..