Joy Postle Blackstone was best known for her vivid murals, often
depicting the jubilant wading birds of Florida. When she died in
1989, the world lost a wonderful artist but Joy was much more than
a painter. Joy s father died when she was only three; her childhood
was spent nurtured by her mother and brother, until she began her
career at the Chicago Art Institute.
After graduation, her life changed, as she and her family moved
to rural Idaho to live on the family homestead. There, she met her
husband, Bob, and so began their three-year honeymoon, in the midst
of the Great Depression. Joy painted and Bob promoted. They lived a
vagabond life. They eventually settled in Florida, where Joy made
friends with the birds who would make her murals legend.
"Joy Cometh in the Morning" traces an artist s life from 1896
through to her death in 1989. Joy Postle Blackstone harbored the
psychological scars of abortion, infidelity, childlessness, death,
and the eventual limitations of advanced age; yet, as the Bible
says, Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the
morning. Through feast or famine, hope or despair, Joy persevered,
and she did it with a smile.
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