MARCELINE - The North Missouri Art Council will feature the paintings of Ellen Lowe. Ellen passed away on November 23, 1991 from cancer, and the proceeds of this series of shows will benefit cancer research. Her daughter Debi (Lowe) Myers remembered her mother and her mother’s art in a recent interview. The event will run from July 1-31 at the NOMO Art Gallery in Marceline. “I think she would be happy and it’s nice to see her talent recognized,” said Debi. “She has been gone for almost 18 years.”
Debi remembers her mother as an avid artist. “From the time I was young enough to remember she was always painting or drawing. Even if she was just “touching up” old chips on china dishes that she collected, or finding old antique heaters and painting roses on them, she frequently had her oil paints and brushes out and in use,” she recalled. “I remember once she painted an outhouse scene on Eddie and Lois Walker’s bathroom walls. I think they lived on up on Lincoln Avenue or Meade Street at the time and I’ve often wondered if it has ever been painted over.”
Of course like any artist, Ellen had influences in her work. “My mother loved Norman Rockwell’s artwork from the Saturday Evening Post,” said Debi. “She also was greatly affected by the painting of father and son, N.C. and Andrew Wyeth. Perhaps her biggest influence was the greatest artist of all, God. Ellen Sutton Lowe saw beauty all around her and tried to share that with us through her paintings. She loved to paint scenes from photographs of mountains and the Arizona dessert. She often painted trains in those scenes as a way to pay homage to my father, who was an engineer for Burlington Northern railroad for most of their married life.”
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