My Parents’ Farm
Folk and Self-Taught Art

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My Parents’ Farm
Artwork Details
Artist/Maker
Mattie Lou O'Kelley
American, 1908–1997
American, 1908–1997
Date
1980
Medium
Oil on canvas
Accession #
1980.68
Dimensions
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Location
Currently Not on View
Description
Mattie Lou O’Kelley is best known as a memory painter who created embellished recollections of her childhood on a northern Georgia farm. The flattened perspective of My Parents’ Farm turns the agricultural vista into a richly colored quilt of abundant fields.
Credit
Gift of the artist in memory of her parents, Mary Bell Cox O'Kelley and Augustus Franklin O'Kelley, and their children, Willie, Lillie, Gertrude, Ruth, Tom, Ben, Mattie Lou, and JohnnieImage Copyright
(c) Mattie Lou O'Kelley Memorial Trust