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Olivia
oil on canvas
This painting of my mother, Olivia Williams Coulter, had to be completed after her death. As an artist herself, she constantly criticized it during her life. I started it from life but took a photo to work from. When I started it, she was already on oxygen, due to empysema, and was wearing a canula. She would make comments like "does my nose really look like that?" One day she wandered out of her bedroom, holding an old black and white photo of her taken when she was in her late teens or early twenties and a "beauty queen" at Northwestern, and handed it to me. "That's what I should look like," she said with a grin. What a marvelous lady!