"City Sights"

Date1987

Artist Mattie Lou O'Kelley (1908-1997)

MediumPaint, either oil or acrylic on canvas

DimensionsUnframed: 24" x 36" Framed: 31" x 39 1/2"

Credit LineGift of Dr. and Mrs. T. Marshall Hahn, Jr.

Object number2001.101.8

DescriptionBrightly colored painting of a bustling city scene with people walking across the canvas in the foreground, while in front of them a broad thoroughfare runs across the canvas, filled with omnibusses filled with people, motor cars, and horse-drawn wagons. Above this busy thoroughfare in the middle center of the painting, two of the moving wagons are parked in front of the center building, a grocery store, and several women are beginning to unload them. Flanking the gorcery store are other large city buildings with the names of the stores in big bold letters written across the tops of the buildings.
MarkingsLower right corner: "M.L.O'KELLEY/1987" Written in black paint across the lower center edge is the following: "CITY SIGHTS"
ProvenanceDonor: Dr. and Mrs. T. Marshall Hahn, Jr.