Mother’s Children

Richard H. Love Mother’s Children, 2008 Oil on Canvas 36 x 36 Inches Signed LL and Verso

Jenny was the nick-name that my neighbor attached to the woman who lived down the road from our houses. All of us were farmers and she did her best, but it was very difficult as a single mother. The kids all pitched in to help her. All of them except little Rosco who had a clubbed foot. The whole family was supported by all of us neighbors. But life was difficult during the hard times of the late Depression years. When I became an adult all of Jenny’s brood had left her. She was an old woman with gray hair then and she died alone in that old house down the road.