Word: farmermaid
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...Farmermaid. A spinster, Miss Willson painted in a Greene County, N.Y. farm cabin sometime between 1800 and 1825. The Willson watercolors are among the earliest primitives in the history of U.S. art. Miss Willson shared her farm life with a hardy settler named Miss Brundage. A kind of 19th-Century Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, the two women built their own log cabin. Then, while Miss Willson sat down to paint, Miss Brundage tilled the soil. The Willson pictures were sold to farmers and other buyers as far north as Canada, as far south as Mobile. The artist...
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