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Helen Orr LaFrance

Helen Orr LaFrance (1919 - 2020) was active/lived in Kentucky.  Helen LaFrance is known for Folk art memory and rural genre paintings, wood carving.

"Helen LaFrance, Folk Artist of Rural Kentucky, Dies at 101," Online Obituary, The New York Times, by Penelope Green, Dec. 8, 2020

Her vibrant “memory paintings,” which drew comparisons to the work of Grandma Moses and other regional artists, brought her renown late in life.

Helen LaFrance, a self-taught artist whose vibrant and intimate “memory paintings” of scenes from her childhood in rural Kentucky brought her renown late in life, died on Nov. 22 at a nursing home in Mayfield, Ky. She was 101.

Her death was announced by Wanda Whittemore-Stubblefield, a longtime friend.

In glowing colors and sharp brush strokes, Ms. LaFrance painted church picnics and river baptisms; tobacco barns; backyard gardens with geese and children racing through them; kitchens with bushels of apples and jars of preserves shining like stained-glass windows. Her exuberant scenes of rural life invited comparisons to Grandma Moses, Horace Pippin and other regional painters who   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 11615 characters.]  Artist bio

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