In 1956, John J. Graham created an abstraction of an eleven-feathered peacock to indicate richness in color.
You remember 56 & don’t know who the 56ers were?
They were the Hungarians who fled during the Hungarian revolt against the soviets.There were several hundred Yiddish families who “flooded ” Williamsburgh, Crown Heights & ?. I remember my father telegraphing his brother who was hesitating “it is urgent that you go daven at Grandmother’s kever” (in Vienna)