ARTIST: Mary Welsh (New York, Colorado, Maine, 1928 - 2018)
NAME: Desert Landscape - Ocotillo (titled on verso)
YEAR: 1978
MEDIUM: oil on canvas board
CONDITION: Very good. No visible inpaint under UV light.
SIGHT SIZE: 5 x 7 inches / 12 x 17 cm
FRAME SIZE: 12 x 14 inches / 30 x 35 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right and on verso
NOTE: comes with artist's business card
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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BIOGRAPHY:
Born in New York City in 1928, Mary lived on both the East and West coasts. She studied at New York's Thomas Aquinas College and Arts Student League. She also attended Colorado College in Colorado Springs, CO, as well as the Arts Center College of Design in Los Angeles.Seeking a quieter life, Mary and her surveyor husband, Joseph, moved from Tenafly, N.J., to Maine in 1976 and took up residence on the breezy hilltop that was formerly the Hannah dairy farm on the Tunk Lake Road. Meadows surround the old white-frame house. Come summer, petunias peeked out of window boxes. A whimsically painted angel adorns the garage exterior.Besides advocating for the arts, Mary often exercised her right of free speech writing letters to the editor to The Ellsworth American's Editorial pages. Last year, the then 89-year-old blasted the U.S. health care system after a 48-hour phone marathon in which she failed to get her prescription renewed for eye drops used for her glaucoma.Mary also illustrated the newspaper's serialized fiction novel "Murder at the Black House" in 2014.