"Moving Back In"

Date1989

Artist Mattie Lou O'Kelley (1908-1997)

MediumPaint, either oil or acrylic on canvas

DimensionsUnframed: 24" x 36"
Framed: 31" x 39 1/2"

Credit LineGift of Dr. and Mrs. T. Marshall Hahn, Jr.

Object number2001.101.23

DescriptionBrightly colored painting of a large interior room in a house. The room is filled with people and furniture busily moving into the house. Some are on a ladder hanging pictures on the walls, others are setting up beds and moving chairs and bundles of household belongings into the room. Two large windows look out onto a snowy nightime scene with a full moon.Mark(s)Written in black paint in the lower right corner "M.L. O'KELLEY/1989 #23", and across the lower center edge is the title: "MOVING BACK IN".ProvenanceDonor: Dr. and Mrs. T. Marshall Hahn, Jr.