Rose deSmith Greenman (b. 1998, Boston d. 1983) didn't begin creating art until 1969. From 1970-1977, while struggling with Alzheimer's disease, she produced a staggering number of drawings. Working with pencils, pen, and crayons, deSmith Greenman interpreted her world with intricately detailed drawings of her house, garden, and family. The view of gardens during her poetic realism phase combine minutely detailed flowers with highly stylized cubism in vivid shades of color. Her landscapes of maple trees, oak trees, and vines add to the child-like magic of her compositions. In 1977 she abruptly stopped creating art, leaving behind a legacy of nearly two thousand drawings. Sixteen years after deSmith Greenman's death in 1983, her daughter and son-in-law, Betty and Frank Avruch, rediscovered her work in their attic. Her work will be shown at the Outsider Art Fair, in New York.
