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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 2418750, member: 111&quot;]Personally, just not really seeing anything that would indicate this is not her work (noting that while not shown, the Worthopedia link that started the &#039;African-American&#039; misunderstanding does state that the painting was signed on the back as well as the front), <b>but clearly the answer lies in a response from her family.</b>&nbsp; The excerpt below, from her obituary, seems to suggest a looseness of style, as do examples of her work, but again no other portraits seem to be around:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;She died of a heart attack on the screened-in front porch where she did most of her paintings, said her son, Giles Coors III. The porch, in a retreat that had been in the family for many years, allowed her to be part of nature, and nature was one of the most frequent themes in her large body of work. &quot;Trees were her love, with 80 to 90 percent of her pictures with trees in them somewhere,&quot; said her son. Her last exhibition, mostly oil on canvas, was at Memphis Botanic Garden. The art often had what he calls a &quot;fantasy&quot; quality. Mrs. Coors once said she did not like to put her art into a single category, but that others often mentioned a &quot;primitive&quot; quality. She said her &quot;buildings were not quite plumb,&quot; and lighting and colors suited her own tastes and sensibilities.&quot; </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Another illustrated book of hers, published in 2001, has to do with her Parkinson&#039;s, and would seem to indicate she was still working (unfortunately, couldn&#039;t find an image of the cover):&nbsp; <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sophie-Swan-W-Coors/dp/0965680657" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/Sophie-Swan-W-Coors/dp/0965680657" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Sophie-Swan-W-Coors/dp/0965680657</a></i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>These two paintings were at a 2014 Memphis estate sale:&nbsp; <a href="https://www.estatesales.net/TN/Memphis/38111/706881" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.estatesales.net/TN/Memphis/38111/706881" rel="nofollow">https://www.estatesales.net/TN/Memphis/38111/706881</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]263790[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]263791[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I kinda love this one:&nbsp; <a href="https://bertc.com/subfour/g125/coors.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://bertc.com/subfour/g125/coors.htm" rel="nofollow">https://bertc.com/subfour/g125/coors.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]263792[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>These two were offered at auction for Carnival Memphis:&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://e.givesmart.com/events/7rq/i/_Live/4ka0/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://e.givesmart.com/events/7rq/i/_Live/4ka0/" rel="nofollow">https://e.givesmart.com/events/7rq/i/_Live/4ka0/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs067/1102950807475/archive/1103334829754.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs067/1102950807475/archive/1103334829754.html" rel="nofollow">http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs067/1102950807475/archive/1103334829754.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]263793[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]263794[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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