Nan Dee Phelps (1904-1990)
Nan Phelps was born in London, Kentucky. She moved to Hamilton, Ohio in 1922. A self-taught artist, Phelps was prolific, producing hundreds of paintings while working into her eighties. Often drawing on childhood memory, she painted portraits, still lifes, birds, animals, buildings, landscapes, and religious scenes. She exhibited three times in New York, once in Boston, at the Cincinnati Art Museum, and in numerous small art shows throughout Ohio. She won numerous awards and her work, often compared to that of Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses, has been reproduced in dozens of books and periodicals. She is represented in the collections of The Galerie St. Etienne in New York, The Henry Ford Art Collection in Detroit, the Cumberland Valley Art Gallery in London, Kentucky, and the Cincinnati Art Museum.
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