‘WATERMELON’ BY JOSEPHINE MAHAFFEY (1960s) ART034 and the efflorescent walls

and the efflorescent walls

Figural expressionist portrait of a nursing woman and child by an unknown artist

The elevated bases and recessed center circles are bright red

Never used

‘WATERMELON’ BY JOSEPHINE MAHAFFEY (1960s) ART034 and the efflorescent wallsBotanical portrait of the stem end of a watermelonpossibly one she grew on her Jacksboro Highway farmby prolific Fort Worth painter JOSEPHINE MAHAFFEY (19031982). Painted on artists paper in the early 1960s, the combination of rapid fire brushwork and bold color selection practically defines her stylesomewhat dizzying, but unfailingly coherent. Mahaffey was notorious for painting on anything that was at handscraps of newsprint, brown paper bags, even