Monday, May 18, 2015

Nellie Bly Ballard "The Grandma Moses of the Catskills"

Since I posted one of Nellie Bly Ballard's paintings here on Catskills Folk's  blog, I have heard from two interested persons.  One was a great-niece of the local landscape painter, and the second was an art dealer from Maryland who had just bought 9 of Nellie Bly Ballard's paintings at a yard sale.  She has since sold them to a collector on Long Island.

The Maryland trove of paintings includes many recognizable sights and views in the Roxbury area. See how many you recognize:

FARM LANDSCAPES:


 


VIEWS OF DENVER VALLEY:





VIEW OF HALCOTTSVILLE:


VIEWS OF ROXBURY:





Join me tomorrow, Tuesday, May 19 at 7 p.m. for Catskills Folk on WIOX 91.3 FM or WIOXradio.org to see what we can learn together by examining these wonderful paintings that have been out of sight apparently for a long period of time.

-- Ginny

P.S.  This book, Between the Branches: Folk Art of Delaware County New York, written by folklorist Doug DeNatale, and published by Delaware County Historical Association in 1985, is an excellent introduction to Catskills regional folk art.  It includes a work by Nellie Bly Ballard and paintings by other artists.  It is available on-line and form the Roxbury Library.



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4 comments:

  1. UnknownJanuary 12, 2020 at 12:20 PM

    These are beautiful....Thank you so much for keeping my Grandmother's art work alive.....

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  2. UnknownJanuary 25, 2020 at 1:07 PM

    I actually have one of her paintings of our home that was done in the 1960s

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  3. EllenWhitaker ConradMarch 18, 2020 at 10:02 AM

    Have several of Nellie Bly Ballard's painting and I am interested in selling them

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  4. UnknownJanuary 25, 2022 at 2:27 AM

    I live in Canada and my grandmother was a University Degree artist from Berkley. I have been going through her paintings and have come across a Nellie Bly Ballard painting titled Slabsides John Burroughs retreat West Park N.Y..I am now getting up in age and maybe there is someone who would appreciate this piece.

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