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| (8" x 10" canvas board) |
By Mary Alice Condley (1925-2007)
[Editor’s Note: We are grateful to Billy Charles Duvall for sharing this painting by my sister Mary Alice Condley, and grateful to his son, Columnist André Duvall, for spotting an earlier painting of a similar scene, which we posted as “Posthumously speaking 5” on October 14, 2014, and identified as “‘Barn on a Bluff,’ 1970s (12" x 16").” Billy’s painting is quite a bit smaller.]
[Andre: “Dad said he was visiting Hector, and he and Mary had a conversation about art, and she gave him the painting. He said he found it years later among his stored art but didn’t remember who had painted it. The “M” of her signature was hard to see at first. Then he removed the frame to see the full signature.]
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| Detail of Mary Alice’s signature, with year that looks like ’81 |
[Editor’s Note: Here is the earlier painting, which is in the possession of Mary’s (and my) sister Patsy Ruth Garza:]
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| “Barn on a Bluff,” 1970s (12" x 16") |
[Editor’s Note: Billy Charles Duvall is also the grandfather of Bindi Danchenko, whose “Everyone Poops” appeared here on February 17, 2015. (Bindi is the daughter of André’s sister, Sara.)
Billy is a visual artist himself and, in fact, we shared his work “Mujer Tropical” that same February, at the end of which piece I commented, “I hope to feature more of Billy’s art on Moristotle & Co.,” a hope that will soon bear fruit through André’s agency. Thanks all around!]
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Thanks for sharing. Great work!
ReplyDeleteNow that André Duvall has posted about his father's paintings, I'm thinking of my grandmother, Ada Story Voss, who had an artistic flare, placing "found objects" in her yard, decorating creatively inside her house, on the porch....She is my sister Mary Alice's grandmother, too, and also Billy Charles Duvall's grandmother (his mother was one of my mother's younger sisters).
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