Bernice Sims (American, 1926-2014), Children Playing

Oil on canvas, signed at lower right, unframed.

20 x 16 in.

Bernice Sims was born in rural Alabama and resided there her entire life. It was not until she decided to enroll in community college, after raising six children, that she was encouraged by a professor to paint. Her works are characterized by bright colors, renderings of childhood memories, and as she grew older, focused on the social and racial injustice amidst the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. In 2005, her work depicting the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, was issued on a postage stamp to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.


Good estate condition.