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Visitors to artist Moseley?s home studio
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?It was a beautiful place but .very .remote with no close
just get the chance to view her.- .very .remote with no c] paintings. Alice, who greets vis- . neighbors and I knew when .my itors herself/ enteHains them - husband died that I Heeded ;to also, with the help of Herman, look for another ? place,? she her prized ?pound puppy,? who said. ; -	^	?	?	;?,?-	.*
has been with her for the past- That spring, * she/had five five years. When visitors arrive, invitations to show her work both begin the show; Alice across the country and had to telling her stories and Herman ? decide where she would go. She ?smiling? for the camera.	,	had her assistant put all the
On Thursday, a tour bus invitations in a hat and draw lived early in the day, so*by- one out. The invita the time1 a carload of visitors ..St: Louis was the bne. Once fv^? r<-~?~:-	?1	~	here, Alice said/she fell in love
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from Georgia arrived after lunch, Herman was all smiled out and chose 'to retire to the back of the house -?much to the dismay of the visitors. Buti no-amount .of coaxing would bring , him out, so Alice went right on' ,all with the stories. ? - % r	here	?
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minds is a lot more reward] than working with paint a water.
?People say that childi have changed, but I don?t thi that children have changed don?t think that discipline the home and schools is strong as it used to be, but s ing that may get me into tr? ble with the teachers arou here. I think the most imp tant thing to remember wl teaching is to treat each ch as an individual... they aren class; they are 20 or 30 indiv uals. I used to make this po each year by having the sm; est boy in the class lay on i floor and trace around him
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December 21. ?I always say, I?mXlooked' at 17 -houses' in one took while on a inp mwc, v	______
four days older than Santaweekend. When Alice saw the Alice describes her work as try funeral where everyone is Claus and the perpetual? late , ,100-year-old house/-on Bookter	folk art, though a couple of	dressed	in	black	mourning
bloomer.? She has stopped tak-: St. j she kne>V it "was perfect for	paintings such as her prize	dress	except	Kitty, who	shows
ing orders for originals, ?I have . her. ,sFour years . later,^. Tim	winning, -?Life Has Many
38 orders now and if you do the moved ? his practice- to Pass	Angles,? has been described as
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math, it doesn?t'make sense to	Christian,. where ? ' he	now
take any more, I- won?t livefor* ?	Resides. ?	;	?	,
ever? she saidi V	v' ?He?s a goodl .son .and -helps
And her days are. filled with me out a lot since I -decided to greeting visitors'now, from her stop driving/about? a year ago,? chair by the front door; .	said Alice. ?No one asked me to
?I stay open; seven days? a stop dtiving, .but L decided it week and I have accomplished	was time. Giving up my car was
what I set out to .'do, be able to	a hard thing to'do.? :
stay home and make a living/? Alice began painting while she said. ?Working at home caring for her mother, who was means I can take Hetman for a a victim of Alzheimer?s disease, walk or bake a cake in between ?I have no formal training. It visitors.? -	.	.	.	,began;. as therapy/- pure and
Alice moved to the Bay about simple,? she said. , ,?
12 years ago from Northern Alice started with scenes Mississippi, from ? the small from' the French Quarter, ren-
abstract. A consistent factor in all of her paintings is that they
up in the brightest red dress around/
! ?Can you imagine,? Alice laughs. ?That red dress at a
all begin with a title first., .^country funeral.? Alice?s sense '??Titles-are so; important,? she of humor is as evident in much said. ?J tried painting without a of her. work as it is in her man-title but it just didn?t work for ner: ?A sense of humor is very me.?? '	.;	(-	,;(V	'important, ske?said.?I think my
?All of my paintings tell; a Sense of* humor has got me out story,? Alice said. ?And that is . . of a lot of situations. It always why they.are popular, because I came in handy when I was don?t have any particular style., teaching, to be able to laugh My paintings are all a lot of dif- with the children.'? ferent styles.? The stories come Alice?s 30-year teaching from Alice?s life and life experi- career , is what , she really con-ences, and her observations of ?siders to be the big success of some of the more humorous her life.
parts of peoples eveiyday lives. , ?It was the joy of my life,? she