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"The Purse Snatcher"

Sims, Mary
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Sims, Mary
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Images, Art and Art History, Department of
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2015x-139
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Rhodes College Collection of Art
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Abstract
This is a painting of a man with white pants, a brown shirt, and a black and red flowered tie on a red background. The bottom of the painting has a strip of white and there are black marks along the bottom caused by damage. There is an artist’s in the bottom right reading “SIMS”. The painting has a brown wooden frame and no glass. There are white marks along the top of the painting. Mary Sims created this painting in 1968 as a gift to Southwestern University, where it hung in a women's dormitory before being moved to Southwestern Hall. The man depcited in the painting is Memphis artist Terry Twyman, who was a student at the Memphis Art Academy and knew Mary SIms and her husband Ted Ranakovic. He posed for this painting in Mary Sims's house on Tucker and McLean streets near Overton Park by leaning in a door frame. Mary took a Poloaroid photo of Terry and used that as a reference for this painting. Mary titled the painting "The Purse Snatcher."
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Artwork photographed and inventoried by the 2015 Summer Art Inventory team in the Visual Resources Center.