A few weeks ago I was out at my favorite little thrift stores, the Grand Ol' Trunk and Second Thyme Around. I can't remember what I was looking for, but I know that I was drooling over a bunch of furniture that was begging to be refurbished. I went into the back room and on top of one of the dressers was a huge stack of drawings, paintings, sketches, etc. I picked through them and found some really great pieces, most done in 1981, but there were a few (the flowers below) that were done in the 1950's. They ended up being $1/piece! The man at the register said that the artist was a local woman who recently passed away.
At first it made me sad that her work was scattered in an old thrift shop, but then the man told me that what I was getting was the last scrapping of what was left. A lot of people had been coming in and buying a lot of the pieces. It gave me so much joy to know that Dorothy's work was being spread all around Manhattan and that new people would get to experience it.
My bedroom seems so much more comfortable now that I have Dorothy's work covering my walls. I may never have known her, but Dorothy's artistic legacy lives on....
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