Mid Century Print, Fannie Rebecca Mennen: Old House In The Sun Woodblock Print
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Double your traffic. Up for auction we have a very Unique wood block print. This print was hanging in my Great Grandmother house for years. This is an original woodblock print by F. Mennen. This print has a hand written titled and is signed by the artist. This was professionally framed and matted ! This measures 16 1/2" X 14" framed We did search on the internet and see that some of her pieces have sold at art auction houses and one of them was this print and it sold for $375.00 unframed back in 2006. Here is a little History we found on Her: Up until the early 1970s, if you found yourself surrounded by Lookout Mountain’s crisp autumn air, steaming apple cider and hot gingerbread, handmade dolls, working craftspeople and sawdust trails through the woods punctuated by the pottery of Charles Counts and the woodblock prints of Fannie Mennen, you had probably landed smack in the middle of the annual Plum Nelly Clothesline Art Show. Plum Nelly is not actually a town, but a sort of farm name. It is “Plum” out of Tennessee and “Nelly” out of Georgia. This two-acre crafts center in the New Salem community, located on a spur of Lookout Mountain, was owned by artist Fannie Mennen (1903-1995). And there she conducted her annual “clothes line” art show for 26 years starting in 1947.The Chattanooga native did not consider herself an artist
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