Fannie Lou Bennett Spelce Born: 1908 - Dyer, Arkansas Died: 1998 - Austin, Texas Known for: Scenes of small towns, southern genre, folk art oil painting A painter of "delightful memories" of small town life of Dyer, Arkansas, Fannie Spelce was a professional nurse who worked in Houston from 1955 through 1959 with Dr. Michael DeBakey in his pioneering open-heart surgery. She retired from her forty-two year nursing career in 1972, and devoted herself to her talent and interest in fine-art painting. In the summer of 1966, she took art lessons at Laguna Gloria Art Museum, but a teacher discouraged her by describing her work as "primitive". He suggested that she not take lessons but just work on her own. By 1970, she had a relatively large body of work, and her son, Bennett, an advertising executive, took some of her paintings to New York City, where a representative of the Kennedy Galleries offered to represent her. Her highly detailed, ultra precise depictions scenes of old-fashioned, good times near her Ozark-farm birthplace, gained widespread attention. In totality, she completed nearly 500 paintings, which are "happy renditions of days gone by, even though not everyone may agree with the rose-colored view that the artist presents." (288) Sources: Chuck and Jan Rosenak, "Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of "Twentieth-Century American Folk Art and Artists" askART
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