A naive, primitive genre painter in colors and bold patterns suggestive of the Fauves in France, she used crude paints from berry juices and brick dust and did lofty subjects that included Biblical stories and George Washington. She was a woman whose life is shrouded in mystery.
In 1800, she arrived in Greenville in Greene County, New York from an unspecified town in Connecticut in the company of a Miss Brundage to whom reportedly she was romantically involved. According to rumor, both h (showing 500 of 989 characters). |
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