Don Bracken

Will You Still Love Me When I Am Gone?

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...

Artist Commentary: This is a series of 42 vintage, Sun Bonnet Sue quilt blocks hand stitched with feminist call-for-action statements. Keywords: ...

French Glass Plaque of a Rabbit, Baccarat, 1977 only 60 made. Stamped AUGST and Baccarat at lower right corner with Baccarat mark etched to base and 1977 38/60 engraved at bottom of ...

Bronze miniature statue by Tom Merryfield marked No 67/95 Tom left the stage and took up drawing and sculpting as a full-time occupation and has never looked back. He has sculpted m...