Born in a log cabin in Long Creek, North Carolina, she became an imagist painter whose life spanned a century. Many of her paintings are surreal in style, and she used mixed media and oil to paint large foliage patterns. Dreams and imagination played a key part in her paintings; she never depicted the actual world around her, only the one that existed in her head.
She led a relatively isolated existed as a black domestic and for twenty- seven years, from 1948, was the gatekeeper at Airlie (showing 500 of 1510 characters). |
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