Attributed to Mattie Lou O' Kelley, no coa, private collection, medium: oil, measurements: 21"HX25"W framed, good condition Biography: Mattie Lou O'Kelley was an American folk artist. O'Kelley was a latecomer to the field of art: it was not until her retirement at age 60 in 1968 that she began to paint, as a hobby.She painted mostly images of the Georgia countryside, including farm scenes that hearkened back to her childhood.She was discovered in 1975 by Robert Bishop, at one time the director of the American Folk Art Museum and Gudmund Vigtel, a former director of the High Museum in Atlanta, after O'Kelley had taken a bus with some of her paintings to see Vigtel in Atlanta.Bishop called her "a true American primitive -- self-taught, an exquisite recorder of time and place".