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1919 Graves County, Kentucky - 2020 Mayfield, Kentucky. Known for: Folk art memory and rural genre paintings, wood carving.
"Helen LaFrance, Folk Artist of Rural Kentucky, Dies at 101," Online Obituary, The New York Times, by Penelope Green, Dec. 8, 2020. Her vibrant “memory paintings,” which drew comparisons to the work... Read full biography
"Helen LaFrance, Folk Artist of Rural Kentucky, Dies at 101," Online Obituary, The New York Times, by Penelope Green, Dec. 8, 2020. Her vibrant “memory paintings,” which drew comparisons to the work of Grandma Moses and other regional artists, brought her renown late in life. Helen LaFrance, a... Read full biography
"Helen LaFrance, Folk Artist of Rural Kentucky, Dies at 101," Online Obituary, The New York Times, by Penelope Green, Dec. 8, 2020. Her vibrant “memory paintings,” which drew comparisons to the work of Grandma Moses and other regional artists, brought her renown late in life. Helen LaFrance, a self-taught artist whose vibrant and intimate “memory paintings” of scenes from her childhood in rural Kentucky brought her renown late in life, died on Nov. 22 at a nursing home in Mayfield, Ky. She was... Read full biography
"Helen LaFrance, Folk Artist of Rural Kentucky, Dies at 101," Online Obituary, The New York Times, by Penelope Green, Dec. 8, 2020. Her vibrant “memory paintings,” which drew comparisons to the work of Grandma Moses and other regional artists, brought her renown late in life. Helen LaFrance, a self-taught artist whose vibrant and intimate “memory paintings” of scenes from her childhood in rural Kentucky brought her renown late in life, died on Nov. 22 at a nursing home in Mayfield, Ky. She was 101. Her death was announced by Wanda Whittemore-Stubblefield, a longtime friend. In glowing colors and sharp brush strokes, Ms. LaFrance painted church picnics and river baptisms; tobacco barns; backyard gardens with geese and children racing... Read full biography
"Helen LaFrance, Folk Artist of Rural Kentucky, Dies at 101," Online Obituary, The New York Times, by Penelope Green, Dec. 8, 2020. Her vibrant “memory paintings,” which drew comparisons to the work of Grandma Moses and other regional artists, brought her renown late in life. Helen LaFrance, a self-taught artist whose vibrant and intimate “memory paintings” of scenes from her childhood in rural Kentucky brought her renown late in life, died on Nov. 22 at a nursing home in Mayfield, Ky. She was 101. Her death was announced by Wanda Whittemore-Stubblefield, a longtime friend. In glowing colors and sharp brush strokes, Ms. LaFrance painted church picnics and river baptisms; tobacco barns; backyard gardens with geese and children racing through them; kitchens with bushels of apples and jars of preserves shining like stained-glass windows. Her exuberant scene... Read full biography
Helen Orr LaFrance - Artist Info
About Helen Orr LaFrance: Keywords
Keywords (14)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Wood Carving and/or Engraving
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Black, African Culture, Figure, Genre, Civil Rights
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Native Culture of the Artist
- •Religious Imagery: Figures, Symbols
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Centenarian Artist, Lived 100 Years or More
- •Self Taught, Autodidact
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Black, African-American and/or Caribbean