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1908 Banks County, Georgia - 1997 Decatur, Georgia. Known for: Pointillist folk art image painting, landscape, farmlife, animals, figures and portraits.
Born to a Banks County, Georgia farm family, she was the epitome of a folk artist--naive, reclusive and tied to a rural background. She grew up in a large farm family and her paintings, primarily... Read full biography
Born to a Banks County, Georgia farm family, she was the epitome of a folk artist--naive, reclusive and tied to a rural background. She grew up in a large farm family and her paintings, primarily landscapes and an occasional portrait, reflect this background. She was age 50 before she began to... Read full biography
Born to a Banks County, Georgia farm family, she was the epitome of a folk artist--naive, reclusive and tied to a rural background. She grew up in a large farm family and her paintings, primarily landscapes and an occasional portrait, reflect this background. She was age 50 before she began to paint and worked on canvas in a tight style suggestive of pointillism with tapestry-like surface. Her themes are harvest, birth and death, local festivities--simple pleasures of rural life. She never... Read full biography
Born to a Banks County, Georgia farm family, she was the epitome of a folk artist--naive, reclusive and tied to a rural background. She grew up in a large farm family and her paintings, primarily landscapes and an occasional portrait, reflect this background. She was age 50 before she began to paint and worked on canvas in a tight style suggestive of pointillism with tapestry-like surface. Her themes are harvest, birth and death, local festivities--simple pleasures of rural life. She never married and lived alone after her mother died. Her work became highly sought after.... Read full biography
Born to a Banks County, Georgia farm family, she was the epitome of a folk artist--naive, reclusive and tied to a rural background. She grew up in a large farm family and her paintings, primarily landscapes and an occasional portrait, reflect this background. She was age 50 before she began to paint and worked on canvas in a tight style suggestive of pointillism with tapestry-like surface. Her themes are harvest, birth and death, local festivities--simple pleasures of rural life. She never married and lived alone after her mother died. Her work became highly sought after.... Read full biography
Mattie Lou O'Kelley - Artist Info
About Mattie Lou O'Kelley: Keywords
Keywords (16)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
Art Style
- •Folk Art, Naive, Primitive
- •Naive, Childlike, Intuitive
- •Pointillism, Pointillist, Divisionism
- •Sophisticated Naive, Primitive
Art Subject
- •Folk Art, Folk Lore
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Georgia Before 1900
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950