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Photos provided Betty Ulrey in her flat at her home in Glen Mills, Pa., with some of her artwork in the background. At age 98, she still paints actively.
GLEN MILLS, Pa. — At the age of 98, Betty Ulrey charcoal an alive painter.
“She lives to paint,” Ulrey’s son Steve said of his mother. “I do accept that her continued activity is accompanying to actuality able to abide accomplishing article she absolutely loves,” Steve said.
Betty Ulrey, one of the founding associates of the Parkersburg Art Center, corrective six watercolor landscapes for the art center’s “PAC 6×6: The Abutting Small Thing in Art” display and auction on Sunday and mailed them to Parkersburg.
Ulrey lived and corrective in Parkersburg from 1953-1965 and afresh from 1969-73, while her backward husband, Scott, formed at DuPont’s Washington Works as a actinic engineer.
She now lives in Glen Mills, Pa.
Most of Ulrey’s artwork is acquaint on her website, www.bettyulrey.com. Included are photographs of Ulrey’s alone art appearance in Wilmington, Del., on her 90th birthday. When Ulrey accustomed in Parkersburg in the 1950s, she didn’t apperceive anyone in town.
“I had been actual alive in our accumulation of painters in Texas and hoped to acquisition a accumulation in Parkersburg,” according to a letter Ulrey wrote to the Parkersburg Art Centermost accompanying her artwork.
Ulrey said she begin a few artists in Parkersburg and arrive them to her home to allocution about art.
“We begin an alone grocery abundance on Ramsey Street and six or seven of us agreed to hire it. The West Virginia Acrylic abundance on Market Street donated acrylic to us. We bankrupt up the old store, corrective the shelves, and corrective calm there for absolutely a while. We anniversary had a key,” Ulrey wrote.
Ulrey said a bar was abutting aperture to the group’s aboriginal art centermost in Parkersburg. The artists could use the bar’s blast if necessary, she said.
“We laughed about it, but we were actual cautious. The bar assemblage apparently laughed, too,” Ulrey said.
“As the accumulation grew, we helped anniversary added as we had no teacher. We generally brought our lunch. I alike brought my baby, and they said this adolescent will absolutely become a painter. He has not, but he is creative,” Ulrey wrote in her letter to the art center.
“We were a little awash in the old grocery. An befalling came to hire an old Baptist abbey on Dudley Avenue,” she said.
“No assignment was beneath anyone, and we all formed actual adamantine to accomplish the bashful architecture into our art center. We had such a abundant time! We were absolutely acknowledged accepting art shows and additionally a abode to paint. We alike put on a nice banquet for about 150 people, served from our kitchen, and with a speaker,” Ulrey wrote.
“I am so captivated to accept heard of the admirable creativity, progress, and cachet of the PAL (Parkersburg Art League, now Parkersburg Art Center). You accept become a absolute accoutrement in Parkersburg life. The old PAL has abounding blessed memories for me. All the old associates would angle up and cheer,” Ulrey wrote.
Ulrey said she started cartoon at 3 years old. She watched her grandfathering draw pictures.
Ulrey brand to acrylic with oils, because they are adjustable and strong, she said.
“I adulation blush in my paintings,” Ulrey said.
Ulrey grew up in Grosse Pointe, Mich., a suburb of Detroit, and accelerating from the University of Michigan with a amount in art and architecture in 1942.
“I enjoyed active in Parkersburg,” Ulrey said, acquainted it was a safe, acceptable abode for accouchement to abound up and had nice people.
And she said she capital to advice the Parkersburg Art Centermost by accouterment her artwork for the “6 x 6” exhibit.
