Selina Trieff - Artist Info

About Selina Trieff

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Selina Treiff, Selena Trieff
  • Biography

    Following is the obituary of Selina Trieff from The Cape Cod Times, January 18, 2015, by Mary Ann Bragg.

    Wellfleet painter Selina Trieff, '100 percent her own artist,' dies at 81

    An artist, a wife and a mom died early Wednesday in Wellfleet at the point, her family said, when she stopped being able to hold a brush.

    Selina Trieff, 81, died in her chair in the studio of the Commercial Street home she shared with her husband, artist Robert Henry. Trieff died from the toll that several health issues had taken on her body, Henry said. "She was having trouble breathing," he said. "She wasn't able to stand. She was just suffering, suffering, suffering. But if she could, she never showed it to anyone on the outside. And ...

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