Details

Title

My Parents' Farm

Artist/Maker

Mattie Lou O'Kelley (American, 1908–1997)

Date

1980

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

58 x 42 inches

Credit

Gift of the artist in memory of her parents, Mary Bell Cox O'Kelley and Augustus Franklin O'Kelley, and their children, Willie, Lillie, Gertrude, Ruth, Tom, Ben, Mattie Lou, and Johnnie

Accession #

1980.68

On View

Currently not on view

Mattie Lou O’Kelley is best known as a memory painter who created embellished recollections of her childhood on a northern Georgia farm. The flattened perspective of My Parents’ Farm turns the agricultural vista into a richly colored quilt of abundant fields.

Image Copyright

© (c) Mattie Lou O'Kelley Memorial Trust

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