Chicken Nancy Luce

Chicken Nancy Luce. By Julie Kwiatkowski Schuler.
Nancy Luce was a poet who lived for 76 years on Martha’s Vineyard raising chickens and writing poems about them to sell to tourists. She died in 1890 and today tourists leave plastic chickens on her grave

Chicken Nancy Luce

Nancy Luce was a poet who lived for 76 years on Martha’s Vineyard raising chickens and writing poems about them to sell to tourists. She died in 1890 and today tourists leave plastic chickens on her grave.
This is her portrait, 8" x 10", acrylic on acid-free paper, work in progress, by Julie Kwiatkowski Schuler.

Chicken Nancy

Work in progress today.
A poet, Nancy Luce lived for 76 years on Martha’s Vineyard raising chickens and writing poems about them to sell to tourists. She died in 1890 and today tourists leave plastic chickens on her grave.

Chicken Mad Nancy Luce

Chicken Mad Nancy Luce was a terrible poet who lived for 76 years on Martha’s Vineyard raising chickens and writing poems about them to sell to tourists. She died in 1890 and today tourists leave plastic chickens on her grave. I felt like painting her portrait.