WORDLESS WEDNESDAY - Aunt Dot, painting in public

My mother's 2nd older sister, Dorothea Kuhn - known as "Dot" or "Dottie" - was an artist, and loved to paint.  Very little of her work has survived unfortunately. Aunt Dot was born 6 Oct 1914 in North Vancouver, BC Canada, married in 1942, and died 26 Apr 2004 in New York, NY.  She was married to a French soldier, Gustav Mathieu, in San Francisco area during the early part of WW2, and divorced shortly after the war ended.

In the above photo she is on the ground, painting with her husband, Gustav Mathieu, at the side.  She was quite comfortable painting in public, apparently. A small photo album of her war years in San Francisco shows many different settings where she is painting on the ground, with people watching...

Late in life, living in Greenwich New York, she became quite demented and was hospitalized rather suddenly. Unfortunately many of her treasures were lost to us all, including the large wonderful photo album of the family in years past. What a treasure that could have been.  Sadly, gone now.  Two of her long-time best friends talked with me about her life in San Francisco, her art, and her love of textiles and clothes with a flair. They all worked in design for textiles, in New York, where she settled in Greenwich.

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