Mattie O Kelley, no coa, private collection, medium: oil, measurements: 21"HX25"W framed, good condition Biography: Mattie Lou O'Kelley was an American folk artist. O'Kelley was a latecomer to the field of art: it was not until her retirement at age 60 in 1968 that she began to paint, as a hobby.She painted mostly images of the Georgia countryside, including farm scenes that hearkened back to her childhood.[2][1] She was discovered in 1975 by Robert Bishop, at one time the director of the American Folk Art Museum and Gudmund Vigtel, a former director of the High Museum in Atlanta, after O'Kelley had taken a bus with some of her paintings to see Vigtel in Atlanta.Bishop called her "a true American primitive -- self-taught, an exquisite recorder of time and place".