"Cold Wind"

Date1988

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 number2001.101.18

DescriptionBrightly colored painting of a city. In front of the city buildings are two squares of park land at the bottom edge of the painting. A broad thoroughfare runs up through the center towards a large white building labelled "Church". In front of the city is a street filled with hurrying people. Behind the city are houses dotting the three hills on the horizon, and above in the sky are scudding clouds and snowflakes just beginning to fall.
MarkingsWritten in black paint in the lower right corner "M.L. O'KELLEY/#17/19" (the rest of the year is off the page. Also written in black paint across the lower center edge is the title: "COLD WIND".
ProvenanceDonor: Dr. and Mrs. T. Marshall Hahn, Jr.