Mama Lucy's Bake Sale (The Original Framed)

Artist: Darnell Kendricks

32"×22" Framed Original Oil on canvas

Total size with framing 28x38.

Mama Lucy's Bake Sale

October 24, 1948, a Sausalito, California newspaper ran a story of a beautiful little 10 year old girl who had a dress up party with her family and friends to raise money for a local community chest fund to benefit those in need of that community.

That young lady was my mother, who inspired by her grandmother "Mama Lucy" wanted to do her part of giving.

Mama Lucy was legendary in her community for her delicious pies, cakes and cookies. There are many write ups of her and her elaborate dinner parties at her home. In the 1930's Mama Lucy had her own café in Texarkana, Arkansas where she served fried apricot pies, fried catfish sandwiches and moonshine.

This tribute presents a grandmother's powerful feminine influence on the women in her family in the presence of cakes and trees in a garden on a Spring Sunday Afternoon.

Of Special Note is that this Soulful Collage includes cloth from one of my mother’s dresses and a piece of cloth from my baby sister’s dress, both over 40 years old.