Outsider Painting By Mary T Smith FOLK ARTIST-Brown Face. Brown Face (circa 1992). Smith was born in Brookhaven, Mississippi, and spent most of her life as a tenant farmer and a cook for other families. She later moved to Hazelhurst, Mississippi, where she lived and worked until her death. After retiring, and with time on her hands, she began to paint. Smith said, I did it to pretty the place and please the Lord. Smith’s house and in its surrounding yard was located on one of Hazelhurst’s main streets and captured the attention of countless passers-by with its colorful displays of her work on roofing tin. In her paintings, Mary T. Smith used pieces of tin, scraps of plywood, scrap-metal sheets or other found materials. She worked with bold brush strokes, usually in one or two primary colors. Most of her paintings are figurative of animals or portraits, in a simple, child-like style, sometimes incorporating words or letters. Her lively figures are often depicted with both hands raised to heaven. Mary T Smith died in 1995 , at the age of ninety-one. Smith – I WE OUR. The item “Mary T Smith Folk Art Painting Outsider Portrait Brown Face” is in sale since Saturday, August 1, 2020. This item is in the category “Art\Folk Art & Indigenous Art”. The seller is “deepsouthc” and is located in New Orleans, Louisiana. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
- Region of Origin: US-Southeast
- Artist: Mary t Smith
- Style: Folk Art
- Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
- Material: Wood
- Quantity Type: Single-Piece Work
- Date of Creation: 1990-1999
- Original/Reproduction: Original
- Signed?: Signed
- Original/ Reproduction: Original
- Type: Paintings
- Size Type/ Largest Dimension: Medium (Up to 30″)
- Features: Framed
- Year: 1992
- Color: Brown
- Subject: Portrait
- Originality: Original
