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Message:: [QUOTE="dude, post: 4367184, member: 13170"] I got permission, so here is the body of what the Ursuline Sisters' Director of Mission Advancement and Communications wrote (greeting and closing omitted): . . . I was prepared to tell you that you were wrong about the artist of that clown painting, but I’ve learned that our Sister Emerentia Wiesner was indeed the artist. (The “M.” stood for “Mary.” In her day, many women religious took the name “Sister Mary _____” and then went by the second name.) Sister Emerentia was an Ursuline Sister of Paola, Kan., and that community merged with the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph in 2008. One of the former Paola Sisters said she remembered seeing the clown painting in Sister Emerentia’s room in Paola. At one point the Senior Citizen Center in Paola – which began in the basement of the Paola convent auditorium -- offered classes in painting and it’s likely Sister Emerentia learned to paint there. That is probably why this particular clown was the subject, as people on your website noted, it must have been in a book that lots of paint classes used. I hope that answers your question. Sister Emerentia was a wonderful woman, she sewed amazing craft items. I never knew she was a painter. Merry Christmas . . . [/QUOTE]