Where art shown in USA and Foreign Countries
Grandma Fran's Art recognized in books and articles
ABOUT THE ARTIST
| Grandma Fran experienced life on a farm during the time
when coal-oil lamps were used -- and, she saw electricity come to the
rural farm area where she lived. She relates, "I cooked on the
wood-burning cook stove, popped corn in the fireplace, made maple syrup,
loaded hay and milked cows." Grandma Fran attended Walnut Grove School (a one-room school in Jennings County, Indiana, and then attended and graduated from Vernon High School in Vernon, Indiana. Her education was not directed toward art. She attended Earlham College, Indiana University East, Miami University of Oxford, and taught on a Doctoral Fellowship at Ball State University in the Elementary Education Department. Grandma Fran became interested in art quite by accident. "Because I wanted my little preschool granddaughter to know she had a grandmother in the Ozark Hills of Arkansas who loved her, I began sending her picture letters. I signed those little letters with the name of Grandma Fran. An artist saw one on my desk and told me I should be painting and selling primitive/folk art. Critiques were obtained. All critiques were good. I have been painting and selling my paintings signed Grandma Fran ever since." |
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Grandma Fran says that some of the critiques which
pleased her most are those of Dr. John P. Simoni and the Washington
Star:
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