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| Mohammad Omer Khalil b. 1936 Burri, Sudan Khalil received his diploma in painting from the School of Fine and Applied Arts, Khartoum, in 1959. In 1963, he obtained a three-year scholarship from the Ministry of Education to study fine arts at the Academia in Florence. Khalil immigrated to the United States in the late 1960s where he taught printmaking at the Pratt Institute. Since 1971, he has taught printmaking at the New School and, in 1991, began teaching at New York University.
Tombstone Blues About Tombstone Blues, Khalil comments, "I listened to Dylan every day . . . at a point in my life there was an empathy with the sadness and anger in Dylan's music. In Tombstone Blues, the feeling I got from the song was of something menacing. It reminded me of the city of Suakin, a town in Sudan that died . . . I do not want to illustrate literally my feelings. In fact, I hate titles, but if you say untitled, people get upset" (Sylvia Williams, interview with artist, April 1992).
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