Neil Graham’s work is representative of a Yukon tradition of illustrating people in daily life. In these drawings he remembers a personal experience of having undergone surgery and being hospitalized. His work has a quality reminiscent of social realism that we can see in such Canadian artists as Miller Brittain and his “The Rummage Sale,” 1940 (National Gallery of Canada). Like Brittain, Graham’s visual storytelling is a way to communicate his interpretation of real life experiences.