Hot Dog Stand, watercolor on paper, signed and dated lower right 1981. Matted and framed under glass in wood frame. 27-1/2" x 27-1/2" sight size, overall 37" x 37". Mary Lou Ferbert said once, "For over thirty years I have prowled Cleveland’s Flats, the vital heart of a city that once was a power. The engine of the Industrial Revolution... shipping, steel production, manufacturing...in this unique arena I have always found inspiration for my painting." Following her formal education in the hard sciences Ferbert opted for wife, mother, home-maker and volunteer. In 1968 when her daughter left for college she made a commitment to art education at the Cleveland Institute of Art and a career as a painter. Concomitantly she embarked on a volunteer journey at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. This particular work was exhibited at the Chitaqua Exhibition of American Art in 1977. Ferbert has had solo exhibitions at The Bonfoey Company, Cleveland, OH many times, and will again exhibit there in September, 2005; Bennett Galleries, Knoxville, TN 1997; The Butler Institute of American Art l993-94; Gallery Madison 90, NYC 1987; Cleveland Play House Gallery l985; Great Lakes Theater Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland l985; The Intown Club, Cleveland l983. She is represented in the permanent collections of the American Numismatic Society; The Butler Institute of American Art; The Cleveland Museum of Natural History; El Paso Museum of Art; National Museum of Women in the Arts; and The Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University.