Zugspite

When we moved to America, my grandmother came out and joined us in South Carolina for several months. She was fascinated by a painting we had bought from a local artist in Ramstein of the Zugspite.

The next thing we knew grandmother was buying oil paints, brushes and canvas - then working night and day to try and capture that scene. Well, it kept her off of the streets anyway...

As she lie in her retirement home, she asked me to please bring this painting and hang it for her. It was her favorite. Certainly not her best however, but the one which started her off on a 30 painting career.

Mountain Meadow

One of the last of Grandmother's oil paintings is this large oil. Quite a bit better than her earlier oils, which someday I will post.

I selected this one as it was brought to her memorial and had previous not been seen or photographed by anyone. Yeah, the owner stuck it in the back of a closet for the past 18 years! So, much for art for enjoyment!

The Spinner

This was painted sometime before 1956, since I have a photograph of me in her living room and this was hanging on the wall.

The woman bears an interesting resemblance to her first mother-in-law, Elizabeth "Jane" Spencer. No idea if spinning was something she did though.

I like the simpleness of this painting as well as the contrasts. Grandmother had a good eye in that regard.

Anna Crumbie Scott

May 15, 1915 - September 12, 2008

Be At Peace

Arab Man - 1961

Grandmother painted this one to compliment the one of the beggar women. They both hung for decades over her couch.

I am not sure if this picture was from the same newspaper article in the Portland, Oregonian.

One of her better early faces.

Morrocan Beggars 1961

This one I can remember quite well. There was a series in the newspaper about something going on in Morroco, civil war perhaps? In any event Grandmother could not get this scene out of her mind and so painted it with her limited pallet.

This hung on her wall for years. It may have been one of her favorites.

Multnomah Falls

Again from the 1940's is this abstract watercolor of Multnomah Falls in Oregon. Having hiked and painted this locality myself, I am going to guess that she was working from either a photograph or memory. Given the time frame she would have had little time or money to make the journey to this location.

This the oldest of her watercolors and I had never seen this hanging in any of her homes in the Portland area. So, not real sure as to why she never hung it.

Again, it had been mounted in a acidic cardboard frame, which had crumbled due to age and moisture. Amazingly, the painting was done on high quality paper and so did not suffer.

Hope to have this one archival framed and on my wall this year. :^)

The Classroom

This is the oldest of my Grandmother's pictures I have found, so far. She signed this CAD Scott, which places this picture in the area of 1942 to 1944.

I particularly like this color pencil work as it documents a piece of family history.

Grandmother has shown herself as the teacher, about to whack her oldest son.

Raymond, the oldest son, also has a rubber band and is aiming off to the left.

Behind him is my mother, Jaquelyne.

Behind her is my youngest uncle Douglas.

The girl to the left is Donna, whom was eventually to marry Raymond, though died in the 1960's I seem to remember.

In front of her is a red haired boy but I have no ideas on whom he could be.

Although this picture was glued to cardboard, the paper was of very high quality so there was no mold or acid damage! What are the odds for a piece of this era?