"Moving Back In"
Date1989
Artist
Mattie Lou O'Kelley (1908-1997)
OriginAmerica, Georgia
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 number2001.101.23
DescriptionBrightly colored painting of a large interior room in a house. The room is filled with people and furniture busily moving into the house. Some are on a ladder hanging pictures on the walls, others are setting up beds and moving chairs and bundles of household belongings into the room. Two large windows look out onto a snowy nightime scene with a full moon.MarkingsWritten in black paint in the lower right corner "M.L. O'KELLEY/1989 #23", and across the lower center edge is the title: "MOVING BACK IN".
ProvenanceDonor: Dr. and Mrs. T. Marshall Hahn, Jr.
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1840-1845
April 10, 1927
ca. 1910