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Mattie Lou O'Kelley
American, 1908-1997

Mattie in the Morning Glories, 1992
Oil on canvas

T. Marshall Hahn, Jr. Collection, 1996.30

A self-taught artist from Maysville, Georgia, Mattie Lou O'Kelley painted herself at the age of 84 surrounded by morning glories, one of her favorite subjects. This stern self-portrait reminds us of American paintings from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.