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What a beautiful painting, Mike. Your grandmother was a real master. Did she sell her work or simply paint to enjoy it? And do you know when this was done?
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I know this is off the subject and I'm sorry. The above painting is typical of her work. It is marked 1943 and is the only one that I have of the hundreds that she produced. My mother's mother, during the years that I knew her, painted to make her rent. She would sell a painting like the one above (18" x 24") for as little as $25, which was her monthly rent in the government subsidized old age home. She was left at a convent as a teenager in San Antonio and taught to paint by the nuns. She let us sit by her knee and watch her paint; I can still remember the smell. I'm sure that it is her influence which has placed me where I am today. I could go on but mercifully I won't.