Raymer Society Consignment Art Auction
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Pease, Phyllis "Rebel Women" 2023 watercolor study for Kansas Capitol mural, signed in lower right, good condition, unframed, image size: 30.5 x 71 inches. This watercolor is offered for auction as a fundraiser to pay for the Suffragist Memorial Mural.Phyllis Coon-Pease, Kansas artist, designer, and entrepreneur, attended Kansas State University earning a BFA majoring in Graphic Design. Worked for Willoughby Design, in Kansas City, as a designer and art director for 4 years. After starting a family, she began painting. The Pease family settled in Manhattan in 1997. Manhattan’s vibrant art community offered many ways to participate in gallery shows at Strecker-Nelson, events at the Manhattan Art Center and private pop up gallery exhibitions. Now she’s primarily working in oil, focusing on figurative subject matter, landscapes, soft sculpture, and also venturing into abstract."As a proud Kansan, being able to work and thrive as a creative person and raise my children in Manhattan has been wonderful. I am incredibly honored and humbled to be working on the Suffragist Memorial project. As a native Kansan, I can’t think of a better way to honor the history of my parents, family and state with this painting and the history of these incredible Kansas women."Thirteen suffragists are identified in the watercolor, a study for mural on the Kansas Capitol wall, first floor east of the rotunda.Key – Descriptions of depicted women in the first rendition of ‘Rebel Women’, from left to right, looking at the painting.
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