Betty Bell (NC, 1933-2019), Cityscape

Oil on canvas, signed to the verso stretcher, framed.

Frame dimensions 18 1/2 x 24 1/2 in.

Betty graduated from Durham High School, completed two years at Women’s College in Greensboro, and went on to a final two years in Chapel Hill at UNC. She also completed some graduate study at Yale and NYU. She was an accomplished, recognized artist, and her works hang in many homes around the world.

Bell spent several years teaching art in public schools, and went on to work at UNC Memorial Hospital in the Occupational Therapy Department. Later she returned to teaching art, both at her home and also at the Art School in Carrboro. She was a teacher at heart, who never met a stranger.

Good estate condition, a few scattered fleabite losses, scratch to upper right corner.

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