Brown Dog

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SKU: BSM 122

Price: $125.00
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Betty Sue Matthews was born on Christmas Day 1950 in Brundige Alabama. She finished the eighth grade and had to stop her schooling to get a job to help support her family. She says that she started drawing when she was three years old and never stopped. Because of financial problems and raising children, art was put aside for a while, but Betty Sue was always back to drawing, when time and money permitted. She is well known for her tin cut outs of animals and people, which are painted on the front and back. She first draws out her designs in pencil, then cuts out the shape with an ax “like paper dolls” and paints them with enamels or other house paint, whatever she can find. . The people she paints and cuts out are referred to as “fat babies, gentlemen,tarts and little biddies.” She says “these people stay in my head and I think about them all day, so I draw them, cut them out and paint them. Then another idea comes to me and I got to do another painting, until it will go away.” Mrs. Matthews is totally self-taught and has been compared to works by Uncle Sam Doyle of South Carolina. This is signed, bought directly from the artist, house paint on cut tin 22"X26".

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