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A local town is represented as a train stop, hinted at beyond a hill. It appears to be either fall or the middle of a drought, as the colors used are warm—mostly reds, oranges, and yellows—with the corn and surrounding vegetation brown and yellow. These colors contrast with the sky, which composes two thirds of the canvas, and is blue with cumulous clouds. Terrell’s painting is diagonally composed, and the left half of it seems more modernized, with its large buildings and what appear to be telephone poles and electric wires running to the buildings, in contrast to the right, which has telegraph wires and a small silo or water tower.
About the Artist: Born in Toledo, OH, Terrel spent most of her young life in Florida—her father was a bookkeeper—and studied at the Ringling School of Art and Design before moving to New York in 1932 after winning a scholarship to the Art Students League. The body of Terrell’s work is nearly impossible to imagine apart from the New Deal: her paintings appeared in the “New Horizons of American Art” exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, curated by FAP director Holger Cahill, and in WPA traveling shows like “New York Watercolors,” “Country Cross-Section,” and “America Through American Eyes.” Terrell also painted two post office murals for the WPA: “The Ploughman” (1940), in Conyers, GA; and “Reforestation” (1942), in Starke, FL. In 1936, along with Albert Potter, she created an imaginative five-part “History of the USA” mural at City Hospital children’s room on Welfare Island (now called Roosevelt Island). Meanwhile her work appeared in such galleries as the Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts. She regularly showed in and around Woodstock, NY. 2 works at Smithsonian American Art Museum. 1 work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2 works at Woodstock Artists Association and Museum. 2 works at the Sheldon Museum of Art. 1 work at University of Arizona Museum of Art. 31 more images at FAP.
About the Artist: Born in Toledo, OH, Terrel spent most of her young life in Florida—her father was a bookkeeper—and studied at the Ringling School of Art and Design before moving to New York in 1932 after winning a scholarship to the Art Students League. The body of Terrell’s work is nearly impossible to imagine apart from the New Deal: her paintings appeared in the “New Horizons of American Art” exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, curated by FAP director Holger Cahill, and in WPA traveling shows like “New York Watercolors,” “Country Cross-Section,” and “America Through American Eyes.” Terrell also painted two post office murals for the WPA: “The Ploughman” (1940), in Conyers, GA; and “Reforestation” (1942), in Starke, FL. In 1936, along with Albert Potter, she created an imaginative five-part “History of the USA” mural at City Hospital children’s room on Welfare Island (now called Roosevelt Island). Meanwhile her work appeared in such galleries as the Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts. She regularly showed in and around Woodstock, NY. 2 works at Smithsonian American Art Museum. 1 work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2 works at Woodstock Artists Association and Museum. 2 works at the Sheldon Museum of Art. 1 work at University of Arizona Museum of Art. 31 more images at FAP.
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Terrell, Elizabeth M., 1908-1993
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Gouache painting
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20 x 14 in.