![]() ![]() Marion also includes local residents going about their daily lives on this poor, rural, and remote island on the West Coast of Florida in Levy, County. In 1950, she traveled to Cedar Key, Florida, and captured the unique architecture of the many historic buildings that line Main Street of this once traditional old style-fishing village. Marion also practiced easel painting, printmaking, and frescoes showing gritty scenes of working classes or insightful portraits. She worked as a WPA artist and later was appointed as an artist war correspondent in World War II. Marion became renowned in both the United States and Mexico and is well known for her powerful murals. She painted a fresco depicting Tarascan Indian life at a university in Mexico. Marion was the first American woman to receive a painting commission for a mural painting by a foreign government. She was an American social realist artist who became popular starting in the 1920s. Marion Greenwood was born in Brooklyn, New York, on April 6, 1909, and died in Woodstock on August 20, 1970. ![]() 1950, by Marion Greenwood, depicts a street scene of Cedar Key, one of the most unique historic towns in Florida. Marion Greenwood "Main Street, Cedar Key, Florida," ca. It is interesting to note that Joy Postle made a living at painting wildlife scenes at a time when female artists were seen as just enjoying a genteel hobby. She pays particular attention to realistic details of flamingos, a rare bird seen only at the very southern tip of the Florida peninsula. In the background, dozens of flamingos are seen in full flight. Her unique perspective has the viewer looking up at the majestic bird as if they were hiding in the brush. 1940, she captures an adult flamingo as it has just lifted off in flight. She and her husband settled down in a home with a studio near Gotha, Florida. She became a great chronicler of the Florida environment and was enamored with Florida’s great offering of birds. The couple eventually arrived in Florida in 1934 and lived a nomadic lifestyle of camping, hiking, and bird watching. They purchased a travel trailer they named the “Brownie House”. She traveled the countryside with her journalist husband, Robert Blackstone. Both parents raised her to have a great admiration for aesthetic achievement, and as an adult, she gained respect as an interior designer and artist while living in Boise, Idaho. Katherine was born in Chicago to architect Oliver Hambleton Postle and Mary M. 1940, captures this rare Florida bird in the style of gouache watercolor. 1940, gouache on boardĪ fantastic painting in the exhibit by pioneering American environmental artist, Katherine Joy Postle (1896-1989), features a unique perspective of flamingos in flight. ![]()
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