ROSE DESMITH GREENMAN

1898-1983

Boston, MA

Seemingly out of nowhere, Greenman (b. Boston, MA), began drawing exultant, radiant vessels and trees obsessively in her 70s over a period of seven years while struggling with Alzheimer's disease. Spending most hours alone, she used pencils, pens, crayons and markers to interpret her world virtuosically - creating demur, constrained drawings of her home, garden, neighborhood in Boston, and family as well as transformative works from her imagination out of saved scraps of paper from family members. Greenman's diminutive vessels and larger botanical and architectural works embody a markmaking which is woven as tightly and expressively as it possesses an all-encompassing reverence and boundlessness.