Yolanda Fusco, Watercolor and Ink on Paper

Description We wish we had more paintings by Yolanda Fusco.  This is all we have, but it is a beauty:  an abstracted watercolor on paper.  The scene is likely of Monhegan Island where she spent her summers painting and exhibiting.  The colors she used here are just beautiful. Details Yolanda Fusco (Czech/American, 1920-2009) Untitled landscape Watercolor on paper Signed lower right hand corner 25 1/2 " x 31 1/2" (overall) in black wooden frame About the Artist Born Yolanda Orminska in Czechoslovakia in 1920, Fusco emigrated to NYC at the age of 10.  She said in an interview that "when I came to this country, I always sketched and drew, but I didn’t really paint. The principal in the school in New York said he was going to get an art teacher. She came in and picked six children – I was one of them – put us up against easels, gave us paint and paper, and said, ‘Paint whatever you like.’ So I was homesick, and I painted a little girl in a field picking flowers, with the mountains i