Sybil Gibson (American, 1908-1995), Portrait of a Pink-Haired Girl

Watercolor and gouache on grocery bag fragment, 1994, pencil signed and dated at lower register, mounted and framed below glass.

Sheet size 10 x 5 1/4 in.; Frame dimensions 21 x 16 1/2 in.

From the Estate of the late Susan C. Frankenberg, Hillsborough, North Carolina

Sybil Gibson was an American self-taught folk artist from Alabama known for her delicate, dreamlike paintings created with on brown paper bags. Beginning her artistic career in her fifties after working as a teacher, she produced images of faces, figures, and nature scenes that often conveyed deep a sense of fleeting memory. Despite personal hardships, including periods of homelessness, Gibson’s work gained national recognition and is now held in major collections like the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She is remembered as a key figure in 20th-century outsider art for her spontaneous, expressive style.

Good estate condition.