Английская Википедия:Frances Currey
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:For-text Шаблон:Infobox artist Frances Currey (1925–2012; also known as Grandma Fran[1] and Frances Currey Brown) was an American folk art painter.
Early life and education
Frances Currey was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1925.[1] She was raised on a farm in Jennings County, Indiana.[2]
In the mid-1960s, Currey was a school teacher, teaching third grade in Liberty, Indiana.[3][4] She had earned her master's degree at Ball State University in Elementary Education.[4] She also studied for her doctorate, studying Alzheimer's disease at Earlham College. She married and had three children.[3]
Mid-life and career
Currey would remarry, marrying George Brown.[3] In the 1970s, Currey's son, James Clarkson, moved to Mississippi. Currey mailed her 2-year-old granddaughter postcards with drawings on them. Another artist recognized Currey's talent and encouraged her to start painting larger scale works and selling them.[3] Thus, Currey and her husband opened an art studio in Berryville, Arkansas.[2] They both sold their art in the studio.[3]
In 1978, "Moving Day," was acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Around the same time, she submitted her work to a call for artists by Jimmy Carter. Her work was accepted and was displayed at Carter's cabin.[3]
In 1981, Luci Baines Johnson commissioned her first painting from Currey. Johnson visited Currey's gallery while visiting the Ozark Mountains. The work, titled "T.J. Taylor -- Dealer in Everything," "depicts a normal day in the life" of T.J. Turpin, Johnson's husband's grandfather.[3]
Currey was commissioned, in 1992, by the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History to create "Decoration Day," which depicts Memorial Day and the decorating of tombstones.[3]
Later life and legacy
Currey was diagnosed as suffering from Alzheimer's disease in 2006. She was placed in a nursing home in 2009, in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.[3] She died in December 2012 and was buried in Sylvan Abbey Memorial Park in Clearwater, Florida.
Work
Currey was a folk artist who painted depictions of her childhood in Indiana and every day life of living on a farm and small town. She had no formal training. Her work is story based. Currey would tell stories to visitors to the studio to accompany her paintings.[3]
Notable collections
- "Moving Day" - 1978, watercolor and pencil on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum[5]
References
- Английская Википедия
- Artists from Indianapolis
- 1925 births
- 2012 deaths
- Ball State University alumni
- Earlham College alumni
- American folk artists
- Painters from Indiana
- American women painters
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