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Sweetie Ladd's Historic Fort Worth (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
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Sweetie Ladd's Historic Fort Worth (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
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Sweetie Ladd was Fort Worth's own "Grandma" Moses, a folk artist
who captured the city's history in watercolor and lithograph. In
her sixties when she began painting, Ladd once told a fellow artist
she didn't know how she achieved her distinctive style. "Just paint
poorly, dear," she advised. In truth, she had attended painting
workshops in Paris, Spain, and Mexico and studied under Fort Worth
artist Bror Utter. After she took a class on perspective, her
teacher advised her to discontinue formal training and paint what
came naturally. Sweetie Ladd's Historic Fort Worth presents
twenty-eight paintings from the Landmark Series, paintings of
historic Fort Worth structures, many of which no longer stand
today: the T&P Station, Lake Como Pavilion, the Nine-Mile
Bridge Casino, the Worth Hotel, the lobby of the Majestic Theater,
Goat Island, and the Lake Erie Interurban. The book also contains
the "Cries of Fort Worth" series based on Wheatley's "Cries of
London." These ten paintings portray such old-time peddlars as the
ice man, the scissor man, the bottleman, and the tamale seller.
Ladd didn't simply draw the buildings or landmarks. She put them in
an action setting. "The Day Fort Worth Burned" shows several young
children watching the flames from a field. Two of the children are
Sweetie Ladd and her sister, who were in that very field that day.
Two young boys also watching could have been the Monnig brothers,
Otto and Oscar. She remembered they were there that day. Other
pictures include names longtime Fort Worth residents will find
familiar: the horse-drawn Ballard Ice Cream Truck passes in front
of the Scott home, now known as Thistle Hill; Mrs. Baird's Bread is
the sign on a horse-drawn carriage in "The Breadman"; a Stripling's
delivery cart is in front of the J. E. Moore home (now part of the
Woman's Club); a horse-drawn funeral procession passes in front of
the old Washer Brothers building; and Fuqua's Grocery sits next to
Anderson Drugs in "Extra--Extra," one of the "Cries" series in
which a young boy passes out the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Sweetie
Ladd's paintings were shown at the Woman's Club of Fort Worth and
accepted in juried shows of the University of Texas at Arlington,
the Fort Worth Art Museum, and the Texas Fine Arts Association.
These historical paintings are now owned by the Fort Worth Public
Library and have been reproduced with their cooperation. Cissy
Stewart Lale's text elucidates each painting, explaining details
and their historical significance. The book begins with brief
essays on Mrs. Ladd and Fort Worth history.
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