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Updated 6/02/07
Maybelle Richardson Stamper
Listed
WPA Artist
Maybelle
Work from
the 1930's & 1940's
We still have MANY pieces to post.
ALL of these pieces
were given to her brother by Maybelle. Many years later,these
were then given to her nephew by him and thence given to us ( my
wife is her great niece ). All pieces listed have never
left the family .
Interested in purchasing the entire Maybelle collection ? Contact us.
Maybelle was born in Dublin,
NH in 1907 as Mabelle Richardson and raised in the Dublin
/ Hancock / Peterboro area of New Hampshire.In the
1920's she studied under George DeForest Brush in Dublin.She
graduated from Keene, NH in 1927. She studied at Boston
in 1928 & 29 before going to new York, where she studied
from 1930 - 1937. She married Willson Stamper in 1937. (
This was an unhappy narriage and this period influenced
her style of work ).She changed her name to Maybelle and kept
her married name of Stamper for the rest of her life. She followed
this by teaching at the Cinncinati Art Academy from 1938-1943.In
the 1940's she visited Nova Scotia several times with friends
and we have unknown/uncataloged landscapes and lithographs
from this period as well. In 1943-46 she visited Captiva
Island in Florida. She fell in love with the island and
made it her home for the rest of her life. She painted landscapes,
modern art, portraits etc, whatever it took to survive in the
early period , becoming a talented, listed and well know artist
through all this. Above all, she is best known for her lithographs
and rightly so. We have early works of hers on masonite, paper,
paper bags, canvas. As she was a relation, this description will
be added to as time goes on, and we dig up the notes left by
her. Her work has been in major exibitions from the 1930's through
the 1990's. She died in 1995 leaving hundreds of cataloged pieces.
Nearly all of the pieces offered here are NOT included in her cataloged
works. See the publication "Songs Of Maybelle" assembled
by Jay Williams / McKissick Museum / University of South Carolina.
Some or her exibitions:
1930's - New York - GRD Gallery,Krusharr
Gallery,Morton Gallery, Studio Club, Eighth
St. Playhouse, Montross Gallery
1930's - Womans Art Club - Cinncinati ,
Cinncinati Museum of Modern Art
1930's -World's Fair-New York
1940's - Cinncinati Modern Art Society
1960's - R.R. Robinson Gallery - Naples,
FL
1960's - Currier Galley - Manchester,
NH
1960's - Marion Koogler McNay Art Institue
- San Antonio,TX
1960's - University of North Carolina-Greensboro,
NC
Yes, our prices
are far under "market", but even better -
Buy $2,500 or more of our artwork & deduct 10% from
total
Please note that the shopping cart will not work
for the discount.
You must call, fax, or email us.
Phone/fax 307-367-4398
Since these have never left the family, and many are unsigned,
we will be putting the following stamp on the
back
of ALL works in our collection by Maybelle.
Also, all pieces will be filed to disc with size
and any available info as a way of providing
clear provenance
in the
future and for possible
printing.
We will be forwarding
a copy of this disc to the Smithsonian upon completion.
#_____From the
Maybelle
Richardson
Stamper
Collection
Of
Alice & Michael
Aldrich
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This entire page is devoted to one piece of work
by Maybelle.
The cover sheet is signed " Mabelle
Richardson" so this is probably prior to her marriage
in 1937.
Credit for the poems goes to Brock
Lownes ?
She had worked on a large
folio series of 24 short poems intending
to publish this as a large foilo book in the manner of Audubon.
Each short poem has an illustration which is a
lithograph Maybelle designed specifically for the poem. The lithos
may be loose. After a lot of research ( and searching ), this
is the rough manuscript in it's entirety. This has not been published
before. We have considered publishing it ourselves,
but decided to offer it here instead. The price on this work
is
$ 7,900 net.
No other discount
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