Roberta Doris (Frye) Eldridge struggled throughout her lifetime with asthma, but there was nothing she could not do once she put her mind to it.

She taught herself to paint, whittle, and work with leather, and became a well-known artist both within and outside Boston's African- American community.

"Roberta was prolific," John Barbour, a charter member of the Boston Afro-American Artists Association, said yeste (showing 500 of 928 characters).