oil on board, signed in the lower right Nan Phelps 1982. A charming painting of an elderly man in his pajamas, sitting at a bedside table. He holds a cane in one hand, a bible in the other, and his dentures and a Pepsi sits on the table. He looks longingly at the the bed which has only one side turned down. Above the bed, and hanging from the painting, is another painting (oil on board in a brass frame, and signed Nan Phelps 83), of a middle-aged woman, presumably his late wife. Several newspaper articles/obituaries are pasted to the back, and a handwritten note says that the quilt in the painting is an original pattern and the Pepsi on the table was her grandson's idea. A wonderful example of her work, in its original blue, gold, and orange-painted frame; 21" high x 33.25" wide (w/o frame); 26" high x 38.5" (w/frame); small portrait measures 4.5" high x 3.25" wide (w/o frame); 6.57" high x 4.5" wide (w/frame). Nan Dee Phelps (1904-1990), born in London, Kentucky, she moved to Hamilton, Ohio in 1922. A self-taught artist, Phelps was prolific, producing hundreds of paintings while working into her eighties. Often drawing on childhood memory, she painted portraits, still lifes, birds, animals, buildings, landscapes, and religious scenes. She exhibited three times in New York, once in Boston, at the Cincinnati Art Museum, and in numerous small art shows throughout Ohio. She won numerous awards and her work, often compared to that of Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses, has been reproduced in dozens of books and periodicals. She is represented in the collections of The Galerie St. Etienne in New York, The Henry Ford Art Collection in Detroit, the Cumberland Valley Art Gallery in London, Kentucky, and the Cincinnati Art Museum. Provenance:Ex Collection Robert and Marge Piper Condition:Light wear to frame; else VG+.
oil on board, signed in the lower right Nan Phelps 1982. A charming painting of an elderly man in his pajamas, sitting at a bedside table. He holds a cane in one hand, a bible in the other, and his dentures and a Pepsi sits on the table. He looks longingly at the the bed which has only one side turned down. Above the bed, and hanging from the painting, is another painting (oil on board in a brass frame, and signed Nan Phelps 83), of a middle-aged woman, presumably his late wife. Several newspaper articles/obituaries are pasted to the back, and a handwritten note says that the quilt in the painting is an original pattern and the Pepsi on the table was her grandson's idea. A wonderful example of her work, in its original blue, gold, and orange-painted frame; 21" high x 33.25" wide (w/o frame); 26" high x 38.5" (w/frame); small portrait measures 4.5" high x 3.25" wide (w/o frame); 6.57" high x 4.5" wide (w/frame). Nan Dee Phelps (1904-1990), born in London, Kentucky, she moved to Hamilton, Ohio in 1922. A self-taught artist, Phelps was prolific, producing hundreds of paintings while working into her eighties. Often drawing on childhood memory, she painted portraits, still lifes, birds, animals, buildings, landscapes, and religious scenes. She exhibited three times in New York, once in Boston, at the Cincinnati Art Museum, and in numerous small art shows throughout Ohio. She won numerous awards and her work, often compared to that of Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses, has been reproduced in dozens of books and periodicals. She is represented in the collections of The Galerie St. Etienne in New York, The Henry Ford Art Collection in Detroit, the Cumberland Valley Art Gallery in London, Kentucky, and the Cincinnati Art Museum. Provenance:Ex Collection Robert and Marge Piper Condition:Light wear to frame; else VG+.
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