Mixed media collage on Zaan paper, signed at lower right, dated 1979, collage featuring aerial views of NC, matted and framed.

Paper 28 x 24 in.; DOA 33.5 x 29 in.

Collection of the Artist Exhibited: 1979 - Collector's Gallery, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC 1979 & 1980 - Green Hill Gallery, Greensboro, NC 1982 - SECCA, Winston-Salem, NC 1983 - High Point Theater Galleries, High Point, NC 1990 - Village Frame Up Gallery, organized by Mary Jo Bell, Raleigh, NC 2005 - Gallery C, Raleigh, NC

Mary Anne Keel Jenkins was born in Stokes, NC, in 1929. She moved with her family to Greenville in 1932. After a year at ECU (1948-1949) she left to study at the Ferree School of Art (closed in 1954) in Raleigh where she earned the Diploma in Fine Art in 1953. After graduation she found employment at the Raleigh Times as display advertising account executive. After her marriage in 1954, she was determined to develop a career as an artist. She succeeded and has exhibited in numerous shows throughout her prolific five decade career. The Greenville Museum of Art showcased a retrospective of her work in 1999-2000.

$500 - 1,000