Bertha Dulgarian's eyes bore into you from the center of complex painting by watercolorist Mary Hilt.

The painting presents a stark image of Dulgarian Framed by a wave of short white hair and voluminous, almost featurelss white shirt, her face immediately draws the viewer in. An intense, unseen light illuminates the right side of her face, casting the lines of her careworn face into sharp relief. Defined with thick brush strokes and dark, almost black colors, the creases match the deep black background in front of which Dulgarian poses.

Dulgarian described losing almost all of her family at the hands of the Ottoman soldiers, and the individual inhumanity she saw during the genocide.