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| Detail from “Morning by the Sea” |
By Mary Alice Condley
(1925-2007)
Editor’s Note: After Mary Alice’s niece Dawn Stella Burke found the three paintings recently shown in this column – “The Barn,” “Autumn Hues,” and “Flowers in Bronze” – she was overjoyed to find a fourth, which we are pleased to share with you today. Says Dawn Stella:
Aunt Mary didn’t sign or date this painting. And best I can remember I’ve had it since around 1980. My Sweet Pa made a frame for it years ago but it got broken because of me (my fault entirely). I’m so thankful and fortunate to have all the paintings I do of hers, and to have all my wonderful memories of that dear, sweet, loving aunt. I miss her lots!I miss Mary, too, and Flo and Don. I might have known them better if I hadn’t been so much younger. I was barely not a child when Don taught me how to tie a double Windsor necktie knot.
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| “Morning by the Sea,” 9" x 12", circa 1980 |
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This painting of my beloved sister Mary Alice might just be my favorite of all of her growing number of works. The ocean shore is such a different subject for her to paint. And there’s something unusually imaginative about her rendition here. Otherworldly?
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