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Lot 7023
Keith Rose (NC, 1920-2007), Bodacious Skies
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Watercolor on paper, 1980, signed and dated at lower left, matted and framed under glass.

Sheet sight 19 x 26 1/2 in.; Frame dimensions 32 1/2 x 39 3/4 in.

Collection of Mary Jo & Dick Bell, founders of Garden Gallery and the Water Garden, Raleigh, NC

Keith Rose was a self-taught artist based in Greensboro, North Carolina. At the age of 55, he retired as a chemist and began to paint full-time. One of his greatest advocates was Mary Jo Bell, founder of the Garden Gallery in Raleigh. This watercolor was painted by Rose while he was staying with the Bells at their home in Atlantic Beach.

Good estate condition, not examined outside the frame.