In Memory of Dickens
Artwork
Medium:
Color Serigraph on Woven Paper
Date:
1997
Dimensions:
Artworks -
Height: 15.25 in
Width: 23.5 in
Description:
Storefronts covered in snow and Christmas decor. Chemist shop is in the center. Carriages and people in the street.
Historical Context:
Deneille Spohn Moes was raised in the back country of Northern Michigan. Being the daughter of a minister, she has acquired a unique quality of simplicity and family values. Not only is she a primitive artist, but a wife and a mother of five children. She started painting at 16 when she bought a used oil set at a rummage sale for a dollar. Her first paintings were portraits of Jesus Christ done with toothpicks and her fingertips because art brushes were too expensive.