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collage with acrylic on Bristol board
13 x 10
framed size: 20 x 16
Alice Andrews Higbee Mathis (1695 – 1784), widow, became the wife of John “The Great Mathis”, a land developer in Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey in 1716. A Quaker of the Tuckerton area, she is recorded as being dark-haired and dark-complexed, strong-minded, possessing unusual business talents, and was reportedly a greater land speculator than her husband. She was fairly educated and wrote a good hand. In this mixed-media monotype, she is surrounded by the colors of war – the stripes of the flag of the colonies, the blood of the families, her hands the color of lost soldiers, her face the determined life force of the Revolution. John and Alice loaned money to the struggle for freedom and were repaid in Continental paper, which proved worthless. They rallied and continued to prosper, leaving a legacy of freedom and lands to their heirs. She was my 6th great-grandmother, and this likeness is based on a mid 1800s tintype of her great-great-granddaughter Martha Mathis, my 2nd great -grandmother.
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