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Priscilla Roberts
(1916-2001)
Maizle and Heidi
Oil on canvas,
25-1/2 x 30 inches
Signed at upper left: Priscilla Roberts
Painted around 1943
Recorded: Unpublished correspondence [envelope postmarked July 15, 1981]
Exhibited: Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, 1991, Transitions & Recollections by Priscilla Roberts, N.A., Painter, np. illus.; Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 1984-1985, Priscilla Roberts, Magic Realist, no. 39
Ex coll: private collection, Pennsylvania
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Maizle and Heidi are both characters in Johanna Spyri's famous novel. In a 1981 letter to a previous owner of this painting, Roberts wrote, "My sister and I were passionate Johanna Spyrie [sic] fans. Maizle is the doll in the blue rompers and Heidi the one in the grey and vermilion outfit." On the wall behind the dolls is the artist's straw sunhat with its distinctive pink ribbon. It is the same hat she is wearing in her famous painting 1945 Self-Portrait, now in the collection of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.
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