Pigs Fly and A Favorite Mural

I, Sweet William The Scot, came back into town to show you another mural. 

Can pigs fly?  Well in my Nati City they can.

I was just walking past this restaurant and this pig just flew out overhead.

Pigs around here just need to take some care in their flights and watch out for pedestrians.

Now I want to show you one of Lee's favorite murals around the corner.

Another ArtWorks reproduction right above my head.

A six story high portrait.

Don't drop any paint on my furs.

Elizabeth Nourse was a realist-style painter born in a suburb of my Nati City.

A graduate of the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

She has been called the first woman painter of America.

Look at the detail in her face.

She also had the honor of having one of her paintings purchased by the French government and adopted into the Luxembourg Museum's permanent collection.  Did Easy help purchase this painting?

She died in 1938(1938-10-08) in Paris, France.

During the WWI, Nourse defied the tendency of most American emigres to return home and remained in Paris.

Her self-portrait was painted in 1892 and shows the artist looking directly at the viewer.

Another reason Lee knew a lot about the area the BAR was held was because of her great great grandfather and his legacy there. 
He was a regionally famous painter.

Marcus Mote

http://www.waynet.org/ency/artist/bio/mote-marcus.htm

For a Quaker he ventured to follow his inner light down an unconventional path.
It was his advocacy of art as part of the school curriculum that is his true legacy. He managed to convince the Richmond School system to include drawing in school eight years before the State of Indiana mandated drawing as part of the school curriculum. This legacy helped to prepare the ground for Richmond’s early reputation as an art center.

This picture of his was on the Antique Roadshow and was appraised for $8,000 a number of years ago.

Lee loves art.

Thanks for being a friend
Traveling down the road and back again
Your heart is true and your a friend of  mine

Signing Off 

Sweet William The Scot

Pssssss ~   Yamini MacLean who stayed here a few days will be telling about her visit in Nati City.  You can read about it here    https://inimaynaelcammeno.blogspot.com/     if you would like to see more about Nati City and her visit.