Viola Delgado.

Visitors on a Laundry Day

Viola Delgado. The Circle - (El Círculo). Dallas, TX.

Raul Anguiano. Untitled. Mexico. Signed and dated 1974, Technique: Lithography. Size: 26 x 32 inches. Anguiano is a renowned Mexican painter who was born in Guadalajara on February 26th, 1915, and died in Mexico City on January 13th, 2006. In his works you can see subjects related to rural and indigenous Mexico, festivals, traditions, religion and landscapes. In 1922 he collaborated with Diego Rivera and joined the group of Mexican muralists...

Laundry and shopping day. A woman enters the scene, looking intently ahead. She wears a white blouse, black skirt and black hat. It appears to have been a colorful day for and the c...

Artist Commentary: It all starts with Linnie Rose Oswald. She was my Great-Grandmother, the eighth of Elnore Rose's nine children. (All but one were girls.) During the 1920s she operated her own business and posed for a photo beside the laundry's vehicle. Family stories tell of a feisty red-headed woman with a will of iron, a temper, and a very strong work ethic who drove down the middle of Huntington, West Virginia's city streets as if she owned them. In all likelihood, Linnie needed these qualities. Being a female business woman in this era had to be hard! She would have gotten the right to vote around then. Later, Linnie owned almost a block of town and rented apartments. I remember her from the days when managing her apartments was problematic. Linnie lived to be ninety-six years old but dementia took her years beforehand. I was in college when she died in a nursing home in Kentucky. The last time I saw her, she wasn't aware of the visit. Her mind was elsewhere ... talking about the clothes she was making and the quilts she would stitch. What a woman! Keywords: art quilt, textile, paint Artist Biography: Susan Lenz...